Chinese app DeepSeek blocked on Apple and Google app stores in Italy over data privacy concerns

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The Italian regulator, known as the Garante, said on Tuesday it wanted to know what personal data is collected, from which sources, for what purposes, on what legal basis and whether it is stored in China. It gave DeepSeek and its affiliated companies 20 days to respond.

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‘So what?’: Privacy warnings about DeepSeek fall on deaf ears

Privacy activists are warning about the invasive nature of DeepSeek, which collects a trove of personal user information that could be handed over to the Chinese government

People, however, just don’t care.

Luke de Pulford, co-founder of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), shared screenshots from the Chinese AI chatbot’s privacy policy, which stated data it collects is stored in “secure servers located in the People’s Republic of China.”

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“Just fyi, @deepseek_ai collects your IP, keystroke patterns, device info, etc etc, and stores it in China, where all that data is vulnerable to arbitrary requisition from the [Chinese] State,” said de Pulford, leader of IPAC, a global group of lawmakers who seek to hold China accountable for democratic abuses.

“Anticipating tedious whataboutery: the difference between this and free-world social media apps is that you can enforce your data rights in rule of law countries. This is not the case in China,” said de Pulford. >

[tommysoda@lemmy.world]

Give your data to the Chinese government or to billion dollar companies. Both options are shitty so I'm not surprised people stopped giving a shit.

[albert180@discuss.tchncs.de]

Well in the US it's available for arbitrary requisition of the US State (by it's three letter agencies, and their secret courts), so where is the difference?

[whatamlemmy@lemmy.world]

You'll find most people don't give a shit about privacy or security. They are completely ignorant to the type of psychological profiling, manipulation, and warfare that surveillance capitalism enables.

To the average chucklefuck, the type of psychological warfare these platforms enable sounds like some magical fantastical SciFi conspiracy theory. They just think "I like products, and this means I will be advertised more relevant products". They simply can't comprehend how their data could be used to scam their mum through social engineering, deny them insurance, charge them individually customised discriminatory pricing, subvert democracy, or coerce them into voting against their own best interests... All of that is SciFi. Not reality.

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OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us

That has to be one of the best headlines