South Korea officials on Saturday Temporary The Chinese Ai Lab Deepseek application from its download from the country’s application stores awaiting an evaluation of how the Chinese company processing user data.
the The Personal Information Protection Committee (PIPC) said The Chinese application will be available to be downloaded as soon as it corresponds to the Korean privacy laws and the necessary changes are made.
Restrictions will not affect the use of the current application and web service in the country. However, the Data Protection Authority said it “highly recommends” current users to avoid the introduction of personal information in Deepseek until its final decision is made.
After releasing the Deepseek service in South Korea in late January, PIPC said it had contacted the Chinese Ai Laboratory to inquire about how to collect and process personal data, and in its evaluation, she found problems with the third Deepseek service and its privacy policy.
Picc confirmed to Techcrunch that its achievement is Deepseek has transferred the data of the South Korean users to BYTEDANCE, the parent company of Tiktok.
Deepseek did not immediately respond to suspension requests.
The agency said that Dibsic recently appointed a local representative in South Korea, and admitted that she was not aware of South Korea’s privacy laws when she launched her service. The Chinese company also said last Friday that it will closely cooperate with the Korean authorities.
Earlier this monthThe Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy in South Korea, the police and a company run by the state, Water and Nuclear Energy, has temporarily prevented the start of the Chinese artificial intelligence on the official devices indicating security concerns.
South Korea is not the only country that warns of Depsic given its Chinese origin. Australia has Prohibited Using Deepseek on government agencies from security concerns. Rapant, Data Protection Authority in ItalyDeepseek instructions to prevent Chatbot in the country, while Taiwan prevented government administrations from using Deepseek AI.
Dibsic was founded in Hangzhou by Liang Feng in 2023, and it was released Deepsek R1Free and open source of artificial intelligence competes with Chatgpt from Openai.