Italian data protection authorities have ordered Chinese AI startup Deepseek To block your chatbot in Italy.
The authority of Italian protection data, known locally as the guarantor, ordered the technology company to stop its alleged operations in Italy on Thursday. This decision occurred shortly after the company did not satisfy the surveys of local regulators on its privacy policies, the guard dog said in a declaration.
Deepseek faced a great opposition on its data collection practices Western regulatorsWho say they fear that the company can exploit the data of foreigners to espionage and to other harmful purposes.
The Guarantor said that Deepseek’s response to his questions about the company’s data collection practices was “completely insufficient”.
“Contrary to the conclusions of the authority, the companies declared that they did not work in Italy and that European legislation does not apply to them”. said in his declaration.
The Guarantor added that he had opened an investigation into the alleged operations of Deepseek in Italy. A guarantor representative did not immediately respond to Decipher Comment request.
More than 10 million users around the world have downloaded Deepseek on the Google Play Store, Marketplace data shows.
Deepseek is an open source generative AI chatbot which is supposed to be more advanced than its predecessors, such as the Chatpt-4 of Openai and the Gemini of Google. The powerful and profitable technology of the application could soften the workforce of the manufacturer of Nvidia chips on the AI market, which questions the domination of Silicon Valley in artificial intelligence and the big technology.
Earlier this week, $ 1 billion was erased From Nasdaq 100, the United States Technological Stock Exchange index, in a single day, fears that IA companies to very well publicized and their beneficiaries can suffer from a resurgence of Chinese AI. Nvidia herself lost about $ 600 million in value only on Monday.
However, regulators and legislators around the world have been victims of disruption, especially since the questions concerning the DEEPSEEK privacy policies remain largely unanswered.
Friday, the French and South Korean authorities promised to probe Deepseek about its data collection practices, French news France 24 reported. Meanwhile, Irish guard dogs also reported that they would ask questions about how IA’s company reaits user data.
Deepseek told Italian authorities that she had deleted her AI assistant from local application stores, but he denied that he should be submitted to their rules, the member of the board of directors of Garantors Agostino Ghiglia said Thursday in an interview with Reuters.
“Not only did Deepseek’s response not reassured us, but that aggravated their position, and that is why we decided to order the block,” said Ghiglia.
Although Deepseek is no longer available for download in Italian application stores, it remains operational for Italian users who had already downloaded the application.
The web version of the service also remains operational in Italy, according to Reuters.
The guarantor is among the most active data protection authorities in the EU.
In 2023, the data authority ordered OPENAI to block access to his chatbot chatbot in Italy due to concerns concerning the alleged violation of the company of the EU data confidentiality rules. Later, the guarantor slapped Openai with a fine of 15 million euros, after having ruled that the AI manufacturer had exploited the personal data of users to form his chatbot without “an adequate legal basis”.
Published by Stacy Elliott
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