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China's DeepSeek AI hit by information request from Italy's data protection watchdog
China's DeepSeek AI has already caught the eye of the Italian Data Protection Authority, shortly after it went viral and became the top-rated free app on Apple's App Store in the US and other regions.
In an announcement about the information request on its website, Garante said it contacted both the Hangzhou and the Beijing DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence offices to ask them what kind of personal data the AI chatbot collects. In its privacy policy, DeepSeek admitted that it transfers personal information of the country where the user lives and that it keeps them "in secure servers located in the People's Republic of China." Apparently, a group of users exfiltrated a large amount of data using OpenAI's API back in the fall of 2024, and Microsoft's security researchers reportedly believe that they have a connection to DeepSeek.
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