Murray Wood: Truck commercials are advertising Hot Wheels toys
Murray Wood says he shakes his head at TV commercials for trucks, which often feature luxury interiors and stylish grill...
The federal privacy commissioner says sexual deepfakes created by Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot violated Canada’s privacy law.
The watchdog says Grok’s AI image generation tool was launched without adequate safeguards and didn’t properly consider harms to privacy.
Read more:
- Alameda family grateful to be alive after tornado destroys Saskatchewan farm
- Elon Musk’s SpaceX is about to make its debut on Wall Street
- Ottawa moves to bar kids under 16 from social media, regulate chatbots
The commissioner launched an investigation in January to examine the proliferation of sexualized deepfakes created by Grok and shared on the X social media platform.
The privacy commissioner says Grok was being used to generate millions of sexualized deepfakes.
The investigation looked at whether the companies involved are complying with privacy law and whether they obtained “valid consent” to collect, use and disclose personal information to create deepfakes, including explicit content.
The wave of images drew a global backlash, with the U.K., the European Union and California launching investigations of their own.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 11, 2026.
