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Data Protection Day is a great day to stop using DeepSeek

And every other service with a questionable privacy policy.

Within the tech industry and stock market, the attention around DeepSeek AI has been more about the open-source nature of its models and the cost required to train them rather than their effectiveness compared to chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini. (Image credit: Harish Jonnalagadda / Android Central)To be fair, consumers don't have a ton of leverage when it comes to using products and services in the U.S. That's why many of us simply accept the terms and conditions and move on. Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, Apple, and many more tech companies are all collecting varying levels of data from you, and it's worth thinking about what you're willing to share to access the latest AI models.

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