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The Data Protection Office in South Korea stated that the Chinese startup of the artificial intelligence Deepseek collected personal data from local users and transferred it abroad without their consent.
Office, Personal Data Protection Commission, published a written arrangements On Thursday in connection with the Privacy and Security Review of Deepseek.
It takes place after Deepseek deletes the Chatbot application from South Korean applications in February in PICP recommendation. The agency said that Deepseek had committed himself to cooperation on his fears.
PIPC said that during the presence of Deepseek in South Korea, user data was transferred to several companies in China and the United States without obtaining the necessary consent from users or disclosure of practice.
The agency emphasized a specific case in which Deepseek moved information from AI prompts written by users, as well as information about devices, networks and applications for the Chinese service platform in the cloud in the cloud called Beijing Volcano Engine Technology Co.
While PIPC identified Beijing Volcano Engine Technology Co. As the “Association” Bytedance Tiktok, according to a statement on information privacy in a statement that the cloud platform “is a separate legal unit and is not related to Bytedance”, according to Google's translation.
According to PIPC, Deepseek said that he used the Volcano Engine engine technology services to improve the security and impressions of his application, but later blocked the transfer of quick information from April 10.
Deepseek and Bytedance did not immediately answer CNBC inquiries.
AI startup based in Hangzhou stormed the world in January, when he presented his R1 reasoning model, competing with the result of Western competitors, despite the company's claims that he was trained for relatively low costs and with less advanced equipment.
However, the growing popularity of the application quickly caused concerns about national security and data outside China due to the requirement of Beijing that domestic companies provide the PRC. Had cyber security experts also marked Susceptibility to data in the application and concerns about the company's privacy policy.
PIPC said on Thursday that he had published a corrective recommendation for Deepseek, which includes applications for immediate destruction of quick information and provided to the Chinese company and the establishment of legal reports of transferring personal data abroad.
When the Data Protection Office announced deletion of Deepseek from local application stores, he signaled that the application would become available again after implementing the necessary updates to comply with the local data protection principle.
This is an investigation The following reports that some South Korean government agencies had He prohibited employees of using Deepseek on work devices. Other global government departments, including TaiwanIN Australiaand US., apparently he established similar bans.