Deepseek’s international repression is underway

Apparently, no Chinese advance is unpunished. It has spent approximately one week since the Chinese artificial intelligence company Depseek launched its Deepseek-R1 model that managed to rival the performance of US offers for a fraction of the cost, and now the rest of the world is looking to put the company under the microscope. According to the Wall Street JournalThe Italian data privacy control agency announced Thursday that it is launching an investigation on how Depseek is handling the user data, an investigation that follows the steps of several nations that are taking energetic measures against the company.

The Italian Data Protection Authority issued a restriction order against Hangzhou Deepseek artificial intelligence and the artificial intelligence of Beijing Deepseek, the two Chinese companies behind the Chatgpt rival. The Watchdog agency raised concerns about Deepseek’s failure to reveal which personal information collects, how it processes that data and if that information is stored or not in servers in China. Access to Deepseek has been blocked in Italy, since the investigation is underway.

Italy is not the only country with concerns. Taiwan digital ministry They advised government officials not to use Deepseek about security concerns, including the possible data leak. The South Korean Personal Information Protection Commission announced that Plans to question Depseek about how it manages the personal information of users. The National Commission for Information and Freedom Technology of France plans to plan Explore the AI ​​company On data protection practices, while Belgium is investigating Possible GDPR violations and Ireland is Asking for more details About how Deepseek handles the data.

And, of course, it would not be a repression if the United States did not get involved. By ReutersAccording to reports, the United States Department of Commerce is investigating whether Deepseek has been secretly using American manufacturing chips that are not allowed to be sent to China.

That seems correct, frankly. The rest of the world is looking for privacy problems and the United States wants to know if this will damage the final result of its own companies such as NVIDIA, which He saw the price of his action take a fall As soon as the word reached the market, it does not need to spend billions of dollars to make a functional AI model. The CEO of Nvidia, Jensen Huang, will be Get together with Trump In Washington, DC Friday, and the two will surely discuss ways to protect the profits of the company from foreign threats such as Deepseek.

There are good reasons to have concerns about Depseek data privacy practices, since there are basically all the companies that want to have their information in their hands. Wiz Research Security firm Research Recently Published a report Warning that a database that belongs to Depseek was exposed and revealed chat stories and other potentially sensitive information, and Wired reported that the AI ​​application is sending US user data to servers in China. If you worry who access your personal information, it is probably better to avoid all AI applications, if they are made by a Chinese company or otherwise.