Chinese at work: Think twice when using Deepseek

South Korea‘ Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC)Within the scope of the investigation against Deepseek, the company has proved that the user data collected through the Artificial Intelligence Bot application without user approval. The application was removed from the stores in South Korea in February.

DeepSeek At that time, he stated that he would take the reservations about data security, but it seems that he did not stand behind his promise.

All data stored on Chinese cloud platforms

Deepseek introduced in January With artificial intelligence model R1 He attracted attention. This model, which is allegedly trained with relatively low cost and hardware, performed at a level compared to Western competitors. Silicon ValleyMany artificial intelligence developers in ‘, although he tried to keep the ropes tight against this sudden opponent Deepseek’s free being, He made it superior to other competitors. However, the rapid popularity of the application brought about security concerns in many countries, especially South Korea.

According to PIPC’s statement; The application is written by users during its active time Artificial Intelligence Commands, Device Information, Network data and application usage details, a Chinese cloud platform Beijing Volcano Engine Technologyand some US -based companies. It was emphasized that this data sharing was not notified to the user and that it was made without approval.

WARNING FROM PIPC: Delete your data

DeepSeek, data sharing He argued that the application did to increase the security and user experience, but As of April 10 Artificial intelligence commands also stopped sharing, he said. PIPC, especially Volcano Engine Tiktokowner ByteDance Although it is connected with it, it is officially a different legal entity said it was.

As it will be recalled, some state institutions in South Korea brought a ban on using Deepseek to its employees. Similar prohibitions Taiwan, Australia and USAreportedly reportedly put into practice.

The Commission sent some corrective advice to Deepseek to prevent the company from violating further. Among them ChineseFor the immediate deletion of all data transferred to and the transfer of personal information abroad legal protocols There was also the creation. As long as these conditions are not fulfilled Re -broadcast of the application It won’t even be in question.