To safeguard user data, Italy’s data protection regulator on Thursday barred access to the Chinese AI program DeepSeek and declared that it was looking into the companies that created the chatbot.
When asked what personal information is gathered, where it is kept, and how users are informed, the authority, known as Garante, was not happy with DeepSeek’s answer.
Laptops 1000The statement noted that the app had been downloaded by millions worldwide in days. In contrast to the authority’s conclusions, “the companies declared that they do not operate in Italy and that European legislation does not apply to them. “
By shaking markets and catching up to American leaders in generative AI at a fraction of the price, DeepSeek’s new chatbot has upped the ante in the fight for AI technology.
