European authorities are raising concerns about DeepSeek, a thriving Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) company, due to its data practices. Italy, Ireland, Belgium, Netherlands, France regulators are examining the data collection methods of this firm, seeing whether they comply with the European General Data Protection Regulation or, if they also might consider that personal data is anyway transferred unlawfully to China.
Hence, due to these issues, the Italian authority has released a temporary restrainment to access the DeepSeek chatbot R1 for the time-being under which investigation will be conducted on what and how data get used, and how much has affected training in the AI model.
What Type of Data Does DeepSeek Actually Collect?
DeepSeek collects three main forms of information from the user:
1. Personal data such as names and emails.
2. Device-related data, including IP addresses.
3. Data from third parties, such as Apple or Google logins.
Moreover, there is an action that an app would be able to opt to take if at all that user was active elsewhere on those devices for “Community Security.” Unlike many companies I have said where there are actual timelines or limits on data retention, it is stated that retention of data can happen indefinitely by DeepSeek.
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