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South Korean official on Saturdaytemporarily restrictedChinese AI Lab DeepSeek ’s app from being downloaded from app store in the country pending an assessment of how the Chinese caller handles exploiter data .
ThePersonal Information Protection Commission ( PIPC ) saidthe Chinese app would be uncommitted to be downloaded once it complies with Korean concealment laws and pee the necessary changes .
The limitation will not affect utilisation of the existing app and web service in the country . However , the data protection authority said it “ powerfully advise ” current users to avoid entering personal selective information into DeepSeek until its terminal decision is made .
The PICC confirmed to TechCrunch that its investigation find DeepSeek had transferred data of South Korean users to ByteDance , the parent company of TikTok .
DeepSeek did not straight off reply to request for comment .
The agency say DeepSeek lately charge a local representative in South Korea and recognize that it was not familiar with South Korea ’s seclusion law when it launch its service . The Chinese caller also said last Friday that it would get together closely with Korean authority .
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Earlier this month , South Korea ’s Ministry of Trade , Industry and Energy , police force , and a state - run companionship , Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power , temporarily block admission to the Chinese AI startup on official twist mention surety concerns .
South Korea isnot the only nation being cautious with DeepSeekgiven its Formosan origins . Australia hasprohibitedthe use of DeepSeek on government equipment out of security system business organization . The Garante , Italy ’s data protection authority , has apprize DeepSeek to block its chatbot in the country , while Taiwan has ban authorities department from using DeepSeek AI .
Hangzhou city - based DeepSeek was plant by Liang Feng in 2023 , and it releasedDeepSeek R1 , a free , open - source reasoning AI model that competes with OpenAI ’s ChatGPT .
