The Korean national spy agency says DeepSeek’s data collection and overseas storage is a huge privacy risk, and its responses are also deeply biased.

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SEOUL: South Korea's spy agency has accused Chinese AI app DeepSeek of "excessively" collecting personal data and using all input data to train itself, and questioned the app's responses to questions relating t

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South Korea spy agency says DeepSeek 'excessively' collects personal data

The agency said DeepSeek gives advertisers unlimited access to user data. Read more at straitstimes.com.

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South Korean spy agency says DeepSeek ‘excessively’ collects personal data

South Korea’s intelligence agency has said that the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) app DeepSeek is “excessively” collecting personal data and using all input data to train itself.
Seoul’s National Intelligence Service (NIS) also questioned the app’s responses to questions relating to issues of cultural and national pride.
The NIS made the statements in an official notice sent to government agencies on Sunday, urging them to take security p…

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South Korean Intelligence Says DeepSeek Excessively Collects Personal Data

SEOUL, Feb 10 — South Korea’s spy agency has accused Chinese AI app DeepSeek of “excessively” collecting personal data and using all input data to train itself, and questioned the app’s responses to questions relating to issues of national pride. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) said it sent an official notice to government agencies last week urging them to take security precautions over the artificial intelligence app. “Unlike other gene…

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DeepSeek stirs up kimchi feud and privacy concerns as S. Korea spy agency demands access block to China’s AI app over ‘excessive’ data breach

A small Canadian cybersecurity firm named Feroot Security found deliberately obfuscated parts of DeepSeek’s code. Decrypting them, it found direct links to the servers in China Mobile. “When you start the session, the system generates a fingerprint,” explained Ivan Tsarynny, CEO of the company this week. “They will be able to track everything you do on the platform, along with your fingerprint and identity, and link your personal information to …

Una pequeña firma de ciberseguridad canadiense llamada Feroot Security encontró partes deliberadamente ofuscadas en el código de DeepSeek. Al descifrarlas, encontró enlaces directos a los servidores de China Mobile. “Cuando inicias la sesión, el sistema genera una huella digital”, explicaba esta semana Ivan Tsarynny, CEO de la empresa. “Podrán rastrear todo lo que hagas en la plataforma, junto con tu huella digital y tu identidad, y vincular tu …

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DeepSeek spies on you and the others, too.

SEOUL (Reuters) -- South Korea's spy agency has accused Chinese AI app DeepSeek of "excessively" collecting personal data and using all input data to

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DeepSeek AI draws ire of spy agency over data hoarding and hot bias

KUALA LUMPUR: South Korea’s intelligence agency has accused the Chinese AI app DeepSeek of ‘excessively’ collecting personal data and using all user inputs to train its system, raising concerns over its handling of national pride issues.
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Some government ministries in South Korea have blocked access to the app, citing security concerns, joining Australia and Taiwan in warning about or placing restrictions on DeepSeek.

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