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MILAN (AP) — Italy’s data protection authority on Thursday
blocked access to the Chinese AI application DeepSeek to protect
users' data and announced an investigation into the companies
behind the chatbot.
The authority, called Garante, expressed dissatisfaction with
DeepSeek’s response to its initial query about what personal
data is collected, where it is stored and how users are
notified.
“Contrary to the authority’s findings, the companies declared
that they do not operate in Italy, and that European legislation
does not apply to them,’’ the statement said, noting that the
app had been downloaded by millions of people around the globe
in just a few days.
DeepSeek’s new chatbot has raised the stakes in the AI
technology race, rattling markets and catching up with American
generative AI leaders at a fraction of the cost.
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