South Korea has accused the Chinese company Deepseek of artificial intelligence of sharing user data with the Tiktok owner in China.
“We have confirmed Dibsic’s communication with crying,” said Data Protection Regulatory in South Korea. Yonhap News Agency.
The country was already Deepseek removal from application stores During the weekend due to data protection concerns.
Chinese app It caused a shock In the world of artificial intelligence in January, billions of global stock markets were wiped on the demands that were trained in their new model at a much lower cost than US competitors such as ChatGPT.
Since then, many countries have warned that user data may not be properly protected, and in February an American cybersecurity company Sharing the alleged potential data Between Depsic and bytedance.
The Deepseek effect appeared overnight witnessed fire on the UK App Store Plans, the United States and many other countries around the world – although it is now much lower than chatting in UK rankings.
In South Korea, it was downloaded more than a million times before it was withdrawn from Apple and Google app stores on Saturday evening.
Current users can still access the application and use it on the web browser.
The data organizer, PIPC, told South Korea News Agency, although there is a link between Deepseek and Bytedance, but it was “not confirmed the data that has been transferred and to any extent.”
As long as the critics of the Chinese state argue the National Intelligence Law The government is allowed To access any data you want from Chinese companies.
However, by Beijing, by Beijing, is owned by a number of global investors – Others say The same law allows the protection of private companies and personal data.
Fears about the user data sent to China were one of the reasons that the US Supreme Court pushed to a ban on Tiktok, which he owns by BYTEDANCE.
The US ban is it Waiting until April 5 President Donald Trump is also trying to mediate a decision.
Security security card for cybersecurity A blog was published On Deepseek on February 10, which proposed “multiple direct signs to” owned “services.
“These references refer to deep integration with byedance analyzes and performance monitoring,” she said in her review of Android in Deepseek.
The security security card expressed its concern that besides the risks of privacy, and Deepseek “user behavior and device definition data [are] It is likely to be sent to Bytedance servers.
The data also “is transferred to the fields associated with the state -owned Chinese entities.”
on monday, PIPC South Korea said “I discovered traffic created by transferring third -party data and insufficient transparency in Deepeek’s privacy policy.”
She said Dibsic is cooperating with the organizer, and he admitted that he failed to take privacy laws in South Korea.
But the organizer advised users “caution and avoiding personal information in Chatbot.”
South Korea has already followed a number of countries such as Australia and Taiwan in the banning of Depsic of government agencies.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) contacted PIPC, by TEDANCE and Mother Deepseek, High Flyer, to respond.