China’s DeepSeek AI has already caught the eye of a data protection watchdog, shortly after it went viral and became the top-rated free app on Apple’s App Store in the US and other regions. As TechCrunch reports, Garante, or the Italian Data Protection Authority, has written DeepSeek to ask for information about the AI chatbot due to the “possible risk for the data of millions of people in Italy.” The watchdog is in charge of monitoring the application of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules in the country.
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