OTTAWA, June 13 -- Canada's Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne ruled on Thursday that Elon Musk's X Corp and xAI violated the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act when they launched Grok Imagine in July 2025 without conducting an adequate privacy impact assessment and then allowed the tool to generate millions of non-consensual sexualized images, including more than 23,000 of children, over the months that followed. The investigation report and the formal finding of violation are the most explicit regulatory ruling against any of Musk's properties since his Department of Government Efficiency tenure ended last year.

The numbers in the Office of the Privacy Commissioner's report are the kind of detail that read...