Italy blocks access to the application of Chinese AI Deepseek to protect user data

Milan (AP) – Italian data protection authority has blocked access to the application of Chinese AI In depth To protect user data and announced a survey on businesses behind the chatbot.

The authority, called guarantors, expressed its dissatisfaction with the response of Deepseek to its initial question on the personal data collected, where it is stored and how the users are informed.

“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,” according to the press release, noting that the application had been downloaded by million people worldwide in a few days.

The new Deepseek chatbot has has raised the stakes In the AI ​​technological race, Rattling markets And catch up with the American heads of AI to a cost fraction.