Seoul officials stated on Monday that the Chinese AI app will not be available to download in Dipsek South Korea, which pending the user data handling reviews. The R1 Chatbot of Deepsek shocked investors and internal sources of the industry with the ability to match the work of their Western contestants at a fraction of the cost.
But many countries have questioned the storage of Deepsek’s user data, which the firm says that the “safe server located in the People’s Republic of China” has been collected.
On Monday, Seoul’s Personal Information Protection Commission said that Deepsek would no longer be available for download until its personal data collection practices were reviewed.
The Data Protection Agency stated that the Chinese AI firm has “acknowledged that ideas for domestic privacy laws were somewhat shortage”.
The agency said that it was evaluated that the agency said “it would take a significant time” to bring the app to the local privacy laws “.
“To prevent further concerns from spreading further concerns, the Commission recommended that Deepsek temporarily suspended his service,” said this.
Deepsek has “accepted” that proposal.
‘Use with caution’
The app was removed from the local app store on Saturday at 6:00 pm (0900 GMT) and is unavailable.
AI Chatbot is still in use for those who have already downloaded the app.
Seoul’s data protection agency stated that it “strongly advised people to use service with caution until the final results were announced”.
This included this “avoiding entering personal information in the deepsake input area”.
Analyst YouM Heung-Youl told AFP that the firm was yet to “sew” a privacy policy for users in South Korea.
“It has revealed a privacy policy for the European Union and some other countries on the other hand, stating that it complies with domestic laws of nations,” said a data security professor at UM, Sunchunhang University.
“Deepsek needs to establish a privacy policy specific to Korea,” he said.
This month, a group of Ministries of South Korean government and a group of police stated that they blocked the reach on their computer.
Italy has also initiated an investigation into the R1 model of Deepsek and blocked it from processing data from Italian users.
Australia has banned Deepsek from all government equipment on the advice of security agencies.
US lawmakers have also proposed a bill to ban Deepsac by using on government equipment on concerns about user data security.
In response to the sanctions, the Chinese government has stated that it opposes “politicization of economic, trade and technical issues”.
It also insists that “never and sometimes enterprises or individuals will not need to collect or store data illegally”.
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