A little more than a month after the Italian Data Protection Authority (IDPA) banned data collection in the country by one artificial intelligence-powered chatbot, it has moved on to another, substantially more popular one: ChatGPT.

To be sure, the IDPA, also known as the "Garante," gave creator OpenAI a warning that it was looking at blocking ChatGPT in the country. In the meantime, it placed temporary limits on the chatbot's data collection and processing of Italian users.

In its press release, the agency cited issues such as OpenAI's failure to verify the age of users, resulting in use of the chatbot by those under 13 years old without explicit parental permission, along with other privacy violations that the Garante considered unlawful. The regulator's concerns were further exacerbated by the recent ChatGPT data leak.