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The South Korean Data Protection Authority has concluded that the Chinese artificial intelligence startup deepseek compiled personal information from local users and transferred it abroad without its permission.
The authority, the Personal Information Protection Commission, published its findings written on Thursday in relation to a Depseek privacy and security review.
Follow Deepseek’s elimination from your chatbot application from South Korean application stores in February by recommendation of PICP. The agency said Depseek had committed to cooperation in its groups..
Duration of Deepseek’s presence in South Korea, transferred user data to several companies in China and the United States without rejecting the necessary consent of users or revealing the practice, PIPC said.
The agency highlighted a particular case in which Depseek transferred information on the indications of the user written, as well as information on devices, networks and applications, to a Chinese cloud service platform called Beijing Volcano Engine Technology Co.
While the PIPC identified Beijing Volcano Engine Technology Co. as “an affiliate” or bytete of Tiktok owner, the information surveillance nut of information in a statement that the cloud platform “is a separate legal entity and is not related to the byteyance,” according to a Google translation.
According to PIPC, Depseek said he used the Beijing Volcano Engine Technology services to improve the user’s safety and experience, but then blocked the rapid information transfer of April 10.
Deepseek and the Bytedance did not immediately respond to CNBC consultations.
The Hangzhou tok the World headquarters in January when he announced his reasoning model, doing the performance of Western competitors despite the company’s claims that he was trained by relatively low costs and with less advanced hardware.
However, the growing popularity of the application quickly triggered national security and data concerns outside China due to Beijing requirement for national companies to share data with the RPC. Cyber security experts have also marked data vulnerabilities in the application and expressed groups on the company’s privacy policy.
PIPC said Thursday that he had issued a corrective recommendation to Deepseek, which includes applications to immediately destroy the rapid information of the Chinese company in question and establish legal protocols to transfer the personal ring.
When the Data Protection Authority announced the Deepseek elimination from local application stores, it said the application would be greedy once again that the company implemented the necessary updates to comply with the Whual Data Protection policy.
This research followed reports that some government agencies in South Korea had prohibited employees from using Depseek in work devices. According to reports, other world government departments, even in Taiwan, Australia and the US, instituted similar prohibitions.