The South Korean data privacy surveillance agency, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), said in Thorsday, the Deepseek artificial intelligence (AI) of China transferred the data of users to companies in China and the United States.
Depseek is an AI platform whose debut In early 2025, he shook the technological world because he developed at a fraction of the cost of competitors such as Chatgpt. Deepseek was briefly one of the most downloaded applications in the world, before cyber security analysts said it was a nightmare combination of User Privacy Violations And the Chinese Communist Party censorship.
Deepseek was only available for about a few months in South Korea before the government forbade it on privacy conerns. The PIPC quickly certain That the program was feeding the data of the users to Bytedance, the controversial Chinese technological giant that created another infamously intrusive product, Tiktok.
In February, PIPC asked the Depseek starting company to suspend more downloads of its product in South Korea pending the results of a complete investigation and the Chinese company complied. The application was not technically prohibited, but South Korea users could no longer download it.
“The commission is in the investigation stage if Depsek raises any damage. A large -scale prohibition could before its responsibility is determined,” PIPC explained in February.
The Chinese government was enraged by the action of South Korea, accusing Seoul of “politicizing” AI technology and insisting that Chinese colleagues always honor foreign privacy rights and regulations, despite the fact that the deep admired were admired. Privacy. Privacy.
Chinese officials hinted that South Korea acted at the request of the United States, since the Select Committee of the House of Representatives of the Chinese Communist Party published a report at the end of January that found that Deepseek’s responses strongly torded the Tases. Deepseek is currently low investigation For the Chamber of Energy and Commerce Committee for data privacy issues and possible links with the Chinese government.
South Korea Research base That Deepseek transferred data of up to 1.5 million users to three companies in China and one in the United States between January 15 and February 15, when the downloads were suspended.
According to the researchers, Depseek sent information about computers, networks and software applications from South Korea, in addition to the content of the questions that asked artificial intelligence.
PIPC said that Depseek did not obtain the consent of the users for these data transfers, or warned users about them in their privacy statement, and did not use the age verification to ensure that it should not extract data from children under 14 years. Deepseek could not give users an “output option” to prevent their questions from being used in the development of China’s artificial intelligence.
PIPC gave Deepsek ten days to accept recommendations that complied with the Data Privacy Laws of South Korea and another 60 days to implement them. The company said that it has already addressed some of the problems. PIPC did not sacrifice a schedule for when Depseek could resume operations in South Korea.
