Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) this week launched High Court proceedings under section 134 of the Data Protection Act 2018 for the first time in order to prevent X from using EU data to train “Grok”.

The matter before Ms Justice Leonie Reynolds was adjourned until September after lawyers for X gave a voluntary undertaking to suspend the processing of EU users’ data for this purpose.

DPC chairperson Dr Des Hogan said: “My colleague, commissioner Dale Sunderland, and I welcome X’s agreement to suspend processing while the DPC, working in conjunction with our EU/EEA peer regulators, continue to examine the extent to which the processing complies with the GDPR.

“One of our main roles as an independent regulator and rights-based organisation is to ensure the best outcome for data subjects and today’s developments will help us to continue protecting the rights and freedoms of X users across the EU and EEA.

“We will continue to engage with all data controllers to ensure the rights of our citizens under the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the GDPR are upheld.”

In a statement, X’s global affairs team said: “We are pleased that people using X in the EU can continue to use Grok and control how their data is used with a simple privacy setting.

“We will continue to work with the DPC about Grok and other AI matters as we have been doing since last year.”