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South Korea blocks downloads of DeepSeek from local app stores
South Korean officials on Saturday temporarily restricted Chinese AI Lab DeepSeek's app from being downloaded from app stores in the country pending an
However, the data protection authority said it “strongly advises” current users to avoid entering personal information into DeepSeek until its final decision is made. The PICC confirmed to TechCrunch that its investigation found DeepSeek had transferred data of South Korean users to ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok. Earlier this month, South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, police, and a state-run company, Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power, temporarily blocked access to the Chinese AI startup on official devices citing security concerns.
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