JAKARTA - Italy's data protection authority, Garante, announced on Tuesday, January 28, that it is seeking answers from China's artificial intelligence (AI) company DeepSek regarding the use of personal data. The regulator wants to know the type of personal data collected, data sources, use objectives, legal grounds, and whether the data is stored in China.
In a statement, Garante stated that DeepSek and its affiliated company had 20 days to provide answers. This step is one of the first regulatory actions targeting the AI startup from China.
In the United States, a White House spokesman stated that officials were reviewing the national security implications of the application.
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DeepSek, which markets itself as a low-cost alternative compared to its US competitors, sparked the sale and sell of technology stocks on Monday, January 27 after its free AI assistant surpassed OpenAI's ChatGPT on Apple's App Store in the United States.
Garante is known as one of Europe's most active supervisory bodies in overseeing the use of AI. In 2023, this regulator temporarily banned the use of ChatGPT backed by Microsoft in Italy for alleged violations of EU privacy rules.
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