South Korea Deepseek deepseak of application stores while checking its privacy

The Chinese platform was withdrawn until “deepseek data processing practices are thoroughly South Korean.

The Chinese emerging company in January launched its R1 chatbot and said it had the same capacity as US systems of AI due to a cost fraction.

But South Korea, like other countries, Question Deepseek’s practices about data management.

At the end of January, the South Korean regulator has already announced that he had asked for explanations to Deepseek about his treatment of information provided by users.

Since then, The Chinese company “recognized some deficiencies” in relation to respect for privacy the commission indicated on Monday.

The latter acknowledged that rectifying the situation “would inevitably take some time” and that they decided to remove the platform from the application store.

Depseek was not available on Monday in the South Korean version of the Apple Application store, although it could be used by the users who already downloaded it.

China for his part said that his companies respect local laws and norms and asked that technological issues not be politicized.

China demands Chinese companies abroad to “strictly respect local laws and regulations”, Said Monday during a regular press conference, a spokesman for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Guo Jiakun.

“We hope that countries concerned avoid taking measures that exceed the concept of security and politicizing commercial and technological issues,” Guo added.

Taiwan prohibited government agencies from using chatbot, while Australia ordered to eliminate the Chinese company programs from government devices.

For its part, Italy launched an investigation into Depseek, France demanded explanations on the use of the data and in the United States a law proposal was presented to prevent its use in government devices.