Still, the jury is on and trying to find whether Chinese AI upstart Deep seeks a game changer or not. Which part of the elaborate plan works due to the huge funding of the parent company to short Nvidia along with the other tech stocks. Deep seek is a large language model that made some of the major waves and from now on the catching of the eye and the data protection watchdogs are in the discussion.
What appears after the first major move from one such watchdog since DeepSeek went positively viral in recent days. Euroconsumers, a coalition of consumer groups in Europe, has filed a complaint to the Italian Data Protection Authority related to how DeepSeek handles personal data in relation to GDPR.
The Italian DPA confirmed the actual time today and wrote to DeepSeek with a request for information. “A rischio i dati di milioni di persone in Italia,” it notes. DeepSeek will have 20 days to respond.
Two key points about DeepSeek are that many noticed that the service is made and operates out of China. According to its privacy policy, this includes the information and data that DeepSeek collects and stores.
Deepseek said about data transmission “in accordance with the requirements of applicable data protection laws.”
Addressing DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Italian DPA wants to know what personal data is collected, from which sources, and for what purposes. Also including what types of information is used to train its AI system and what the legal basis is for processing.
Further, it notes in its information request and wants to know about “in the event that personal data is collected through web scraping activities,” how users who are “registered and those not registered to the service have been or are informed about the processing of their data.”
Euroconsumers and the Italian watchdog are making their first effort to move against the DeepSeek. They also not be the last. The news source MLex points out that Euroconsumers also emphasized the lack of information on how DeepSeek safeguards or limits access for minors to its services, including age verification and data management for minors.
DeepSeek was a prime topic at a press conference at the European Commission. Thomas Regnier, the Commission Spokesperson for Tech Sovereignty asked the answers related to security, privacy, and censorship.
Regnier noted
“The services offered in Europe will respect our rules,” this is the response to the data privacy questions.
