DeepSeek, surging in the US, stores user data in China: report
TikTok for fears of national security and data being leaked to Beijing. This led to a mass migration to another Chinese app, RedNote. Over the weekend, another Chinese company DeepSeek is making waves in the US, with a big data problem.
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DeepSeek's AI assistant, which took over ChatGPT in terms of downloads in the US, claims to make LLMs for a fraction of what bigwigs like OpenAI and Meta cost. It is also a cheaper alternative for research professionals and developers to use AI solutions. But the key problem remains: it collects a massive amount of user data and stores it in China.
According to a report in Wired, a US tech publication, the Chinese app collects scores of data, including all users' chat messages. It has also been reported to censor content which is critical of China and its policies. It is recording more of US users' data than TikTok did.
What data does it collect?
The report cites the English-language DeepSeek privacy policy, which states: “We store the information we collect in secure servers located in the People's Republic of China.” It adds that information it receives about the user is of three broad categories: data that you share with DeepSeek, information that it automatically collects, and information it can get from other sources.
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