South Korea Says DeepSeek Transferred User Data, Prompts Without Consent (reuters.com) 9
South Korea's data protection authority said on Thursday that Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek transferred user information and prompts without permission when the service was still available for download in the country's app market. From a report: The Personal Information Protection Commission said in a statement that Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co Ltd did not obtain user consent while transferring personal information to a number of companies in China and the United States at the time of its South Korean launch in January.
LLM or App (Score:3, Insightful)
Color me unsurprised (Score:3)
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Re: Color me unsurprised (Score:1)
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Seething hatred of trump aside - at least in the US you have courts as a recourse.
Only if you have more money than the corporation behind whatever it is you think wronged you.
Well of course it did (Score:2)
It's the CCP way.
In other news (Score:1)
The Vatican confirmed that the Pope hadn't applied for membership of the Lutheran church, and ursine faecal material is still to be found in forests.
Perhaps what is interesting is that this doesn't come as a surprise - and would probably like to hope that the NSA is as good at this targeting foreigners, though not, of course US citizens, that would be naughty. I guess that society has always been this immoral; we've just not realised it until recently.
The real news is (Score:2)
That SK has a Personal Information Protection Commission.
Wow, wish we could get one!