Apple<\/a> and Google to remove DeepSeek from their stores due to concerns about data safety, a data protection \u2060authority commissioner said in June.<\/p>\nINDIA<\/p>\n
India’s finance ministry asked \u200cits employees at the beginning of February to avoid using AI tools including ChatGPT and DeepSeek for official purposes, citing risks posed to confidentiality of government documents and data.<\/p>\n
ITALY<\/p>\n
Italy’s antitrust watchdog AGCM has ended an investigation \u200dinto the Chinese AI system DeepSeek for allegedly failing to warn users that it may produce false information, agreeing to binding commitments as a condition for closing the case.<\/p>\n
In January of 2025, it blocked the app citing a lack of information on its use of personal data.<\/p>\n
NETHERLANDS<\/p>\n
The Netherlands’ privacy watchdog at the \u200bend of January said it would launch an investigation into Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek’s data collection practices and urged Dutch users \u200cto exercise caution with the company’s software.<\/p>\n
The government has also banned civil servants from using the app, citing policy regarding countries with an offensive cyber program, the government spokesperson said in late July.<\/p>\n
RUSSIA<\/p>\n
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin in early February instructed Sberbank to collaborate with Chinese researchers on joint AI projects, a top executive at Russia’s biggest bank told Reuters.<\/p>\n
SOUTH KOREA<\/p>\n
South Korea’s data protection authority said in mid-February that new downloads of the DeepSeek app had been suspended in the country after the startup acknowledged failing to take into account some of the agency’s \u2060rules on protecting personal data.<\/p>\n
Earlier in February, the industry minister had temporarily blocked \u200bemployee access to DeepSeek due to security concerns.<\/p>\n
The service became available again at the \u200bend of April.<\/p>\n
TAIWAN<\/p>\n
Taiwan in February banned government departments from using DeepSeek’s service as it saw it as a security risk. It also raised concerns about censorship on DeepSeek and the risk of data ending up in China.<\/p>\n
UNITED STATES<\/p>\n
The \u200dTrump administration is weighing penalties that \u2060would block DeepSeek from buying U.S. technology, and is debating barring Americans’ access to its services, the New York Times reported in April.<\/p>\n
A group of nine U.S. lawmakers sent in December a letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth urging the \u2060Pentagon to add a slew of Chinese technology firms, including DeepSeek, to a list of entities allegedly assisting the Chinese military.<\/p>\n
Seven Republican U.S. senators in August already asked \u200cthe Commerce Department to evaluate potential data security vulnerabilities posed by Chinese open-source AI models like DeepSeek.<\/p>\n
(Compiled by Mateusz \u200cRabiega, Paolo Laudani and Tristan Veyet in Gdansk; Editing by Matt Scuffham)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 6 (Reuters) – Chinese AI startup DeepSeek, which said in January it had developed an AI model…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,7241,8736,18,19,17,70179,137934,137933,62394,137936,137935,113646,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-270335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-data-protection","12":"tag-deepseek","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-personal-data","17":"tag-privacy-policy","18":"tag-privacy-watchdog","19":"tag-security-concerns","20":"tag-security-policies","21":"tag-security-risk","22":"tag-security-risks","23":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115848405627198088","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}