Expert Analysis

OPC’s Grok deepfake investigation points to the need for privacy and online harms reform

By David Young ( June 19, 2026, 11:50 AM EDT) -- In an investigation report released on June 11, the federal Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) found that the AI chatbot Grok, a feature offered to users of X, the social media platform (formerly Twitter), breached the current privacy law, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), by creating sexualized artificial images of real people, in particular women and children, without their consent....