Advocacy group questions Department of Education's decision to post images on X

The recent controversy surrounding X’s AI bot Grok’s willingness to ‘nudify’ and sexualise images of real people appears to have become a tipping point for some in Government File picture: Kirill Kudryavtsev/Getty

A prominent privacy-rights advocacy group has queried the Department of Education's use of social media site X and its decision to post images of children on the platform.

Digital Rights Ireland (DRI) has asked what precautions under GDPR the department has taken in terms of its posting to the Elon Musk-owned site in the wake of revelations X is offering a service to paid subscribers allowing the digital alteration of images shared to X.