At the heart of the controversy is DeepSeek’s data collection practices. Users have reported that the app requests extensive permissions that may include access to: Contacts and Communications; ...

DeepSeek may be removed from app stores in Germany over data privacy and compliance concerns, according to sources familiar ...

Chinese tech under increased scrutiny . South Korea may be the first to formally accuse DeepSeek of illegally sharing users' data with the controversial TikTok owner, but it's not the only country ...

It’s worth adding that South Korea may be the first country to formally accuse DeepSeek of illegally sharing user data with the controversial TikTok owner. However, it is not the only one with ...

The controversial company is subject to Chinese laws, which mandate cooperation with government intelligence agencies and potentially compromise users’ private data, Paxton said, adding that he ...

According to DeepSeek's privacy policy, the service collects a trove of user data, including chat and search query history, the device a user is on, keystroke patterns, IP addresses, internet ...

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.

HANNA DOHMEN is a Senior Research Analyst at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology and a Nonresident ...

South Korea has accused Chinese AI startup DeepSeek of sharing user data with the owner of TikTok in China. “We confirmed DeepSeek communicating with ByteDance,” the South Korean data protection ...

Adding another controversy to the pile, it looks like Microsoft is investigating DeepSeek. In just a couple of days, DeepSeek has gone from being a rising star to being a rising security and ...

DeepSeek's troubles continue to persist as the discredited AI app suffered a mass data leak, exposing the sensitive records of over one million users. Researchers accessed a publicly accessible ...

The emergence of a newly popular artificial intelligence (AI) model from Chinese startup DeepSeek is raising national security and data privacy concerns for the U.S., not unlike those that spurred ...