The Ireland Data Protection Commission also requested information from Deepseek on data processing related to Irish users.
Last week, Deepseek has launched a free AI assistant she claims to use less data and cost much less than existing services.
Until Monday, the assistant surpassed the American Rival Chatgpt by the number of downloads from Apple’s App Store store, which caused panic among investors in technological shares.
– The news of the Advertising received only a few hours ago, I can’t say whether it is because of us or not – said the head of the Italian Data Protection Pasquale Stanzione for the Ansa news agency.
– Our office will initiate a detailed investigation to determine whether GDPR rules are respected, according to ANSA, referring to the regulations of the European Union on data protection.
Italian regulator, known as guarantors, announced on Tuesday that he wanted to know what personal data of the application collects, from which sources, for purposes, on which legal basis and whether the data is stored in China.
He gave Deepseek and his connected companies 20 days to answer.
Stanzione also stated that the regulator seeks assurances on the protection of minor applications, avoiding bias and prevent mixing in the elections.
The notice shown in Italian users at the Apple App Store Store states that the application “is currently unavailable in the country or area you are in”. The message on Google’s application platform says the download “is not supported” in Italy.
Deepseek is still operational for Italian users who have previously downloaded the application, and was available for pickups and functioned on Wednesday in other European Union countries and UK.
In Germany, the Ministry of the Interior spokesman said that the government is monitoring and applications due to potential mixing in the Federal Elections in that country to be held on 23. February.
– Of course, security agencies deal with both applications and possible influence on the formation of public opinion via AI applications, especially now before the Bundestag election – spokesperson, not citing concrete models.
Italian guarantors is one of the most active European regulators regarding the use of AI. Two years ago, he briefly banned the use of the ChatGPT that supports Microsoft due to the suspicion of violation of the EU Privacy Policy.
The Ireland Data Protection Commission is the main regulator of the EU for most leading American internet companies due to the location of their EU operations in Ireland, but Deepseek did not order Ireland as its registered office in the EU.
(Vijesti.ba / Fena)
