Chinese app DeepSeek blocked on Apple and Google app stores in Italy over data privacy concerns (www.reuters.com)
from randomname@scribe.disroot.org to privacy@lemmy.ca on 29 Jan 2025 18:06
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The Italian regulator, known as the Garante, said on Tuesday it wanted to know what personal data is collected, from which sources, for what purposes, on what legal basis and whether it is stored in China. It gave DeepSeek and its affiliated companies 20 days to respond.

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randomname@scribe.disroot.org on 29 Jan 2025 18:49 next collapse

‘So what?’: Privacy warnings about DeepSeek fall on deaf ears

Privacy activists are warning about the invasive nature of DeepSeek, which collects a trove of personal user information that could be handed over to the Chinese government

People, however, just don’t care.

Luke de Pulford, co-founder of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), shared screenshots from the Chinese AI chatbot’s privacy policy, which stated data it collects is stored in “secure servers located in the People’s Republic of China.”

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“Just fyi, @deepseek_ai collects your IP, keystroke patterns, device info, etc etc, and stores it in China, where all that data is vulnerable to arbitrary requisition from the [Chinese] State,” said de Pulford, leader of IPAC, a global group of lawmakers who seek to hold China accountable for democratic abuses.

“Anticipating tedious whataboutery: the difference between this and free-world social media apps is that you can enforce your data rights in rule of law countries. This is not the case in China,” said de Pulford. >

mox@lemmy.sdf.org on 29 Jan 2025 21:32 collapse

Snowden said it clearly at WebSummit 2019: The problem isn’t data protection; the problem is data collection.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezp16KD8dVw&t=953s

Asking companies to justify it is pointless. We need laws forbidding it.