Deepseek, the Chinese AI assistant, has been temporarily unavailable in application stores in South Korea since February 15. Since the country’s data protection authority, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) has said that downloads will resume once the Chinese AI Company will comply with local data protection laws, while Those with the application can always use them. Deepseek is also on the South Korean government and military systems.
Deepseek only established a local presence in South Korea on February 10. The company also recognized that it did not fully consider the laws of data protection in South Korea when the service is launched on a global scale. Fortunately for South Korean users, the new AI power intends to cooperate with the PIPC.
The PIPC says that the Deepseek inspection will take some time. The on -site inspections of Six Services of Google, Openai, Microsoft and others took about five months. This inspection should take less time because it implies that Deepseek.
In a declaration at The PIPC revealed that he had discovered that Deepseek transferred the data of Korean users to Bytedance, the parent company of Tiktok. Local users have been warned not to enter personal information in the application.
Last month, the Italian Data Protection Authority or Guarantor, sent Deepseek and requesting what type of data on the models was formed and several other questions. Other countries like And have also prohibited the application on government devices due to security problems.
The spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Chinese Affairs Guo Jiakun To the deep ban on South Korea, to affirm that Beijing would never ask a company or a person to store or collect illegal data.
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