The Irish Data Protection Commission today (12 September) said it has started a cross-border statutory inquiry into Google to verify whether the company’s AI practices are compliant with the EU’s data protection rules. The watchdog wants to know whether the tech giant has undertaken an assessment under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) before processing the personal data of EU and EEA users for the development of its foundational AI Model, Pathways Language Model 2, the statement said. “A Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA), where required, is of crucial importance in ens…