On Saturday, Korean officials temporarily restricted China’s AI Lab DeepSeek app, which waits for Chinese companies to evaluate how to process user data.
PIPC (Personal Information Protection Commission) said that if you comply with the Korean Privacy Act and perform the necessary changes, you can download the Chinese app.
This limit does not affect the use of the country’s existing apps and web services. However, the data protection authorities said that they had “strong advice” to the current user to prevent personal information from entering the DEEPSEEK until the final decision was made.
After the launch of the DEEPSEEK service in Korea at the end of January, PIPC contacted the Chinese AI laboratory to investigate how to collect and process personal data and discovered problems related to DeepSeek’s third -party service and personal information. policy.
PICC found that DEEPSEEK’s survey showed that Korean users’ data was transmitted to Tiktok’s parent company bytedance.
DeepSeek did not immediately respond to the request.
The agency said that DEEPSEEK recently appointed a local representative in Korea and admitted that he was not familiar with Korea’s personal information protection law. The Chinese company also said it will cooperate closely with Korean authorities last Friday.
Earlier this month, Korea’s trade industry and energy, police and state -owned companies, Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power, temporarily blocked access to China AI startups for official devices citing security issues.
Korea is not the only country that is cautious in DeepSeek, considering China’s origin. Australia has banned the use of DeepSeek in security issues. Garante, an Italian data protection authorities, instructed Deepseek to block the country’s chatbot, and Taiwan banned the use of Deepseek AI.
Hangzhou City -based Deepseek was founded by Liang Feng in 2023 and launched Deepseek R1, a free open source reasoning AI model competing with Openai’s CHATGPT.
