According to Choi Jang-Hyuk, vice president of the South Korean personal information protection committee, platform has been withdrawn to verify its compliance with local laws
The Government of It announced on Monday that it withdrew the Chinese DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform of local application stores, while reviewing user data management, which caused a reaction from the government of .
The Chinese platform has been removed for a “deep analysis of DeepSeek data processing practices to verify its compliance” with local laws, said Choi Jang-Hyuk, vice president of the South Korean personal information protection committee.
The Chinese startup launched in January its Chatbot R1 and said it had the same capacity as American AI systems, but by a cost fraction. South Korea, like other countries, questions DeepSeek’s practices about data management.
In late January, the South Korean regulatory agency announced a DeepSeek request for explanations about its processing of information provided by users. Since then, the Chinese company “recognized some deficiencies” regarding respect for privacy, the commission said on Monday.
The Commission acknowledged that rectifying the situation “would inevitably take some time” and that it has therefore decided to remove the platform from application stores. Deepseek was not available on Monday in the South Korean version of Apple’s application store, but people had already downloaded Chatbot still can use it.
China has stated that its companies respect local laws and standards, while requested that technological issues are not politicized. Beijing requires Chinese companies abroad to respect “local laws and standards strictly,” said a spokesman for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Guo Jiakun.
“We hope that the countries involved avoid adopting measures that exceed the concept of security and politic and technological issues,” added Guo. Taiwan forbade the use of Chinese chatbot by its government agencies, while Australia ordered the removal of programs from the Chinese company from government devices.
Italy began an investigation into Deepseek, France requested explanations of data use and in the United States a law proposal was presented to prevent its use on government devices.
*With information from AFP
Posted by Victor Oliveira
