{"id":1216290,"date":"2025-02-17T11:31:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T16:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216290"},"modified":"2025-02-17T11:31:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T16:31:55","slug":"privacy-problematic-deepseek-pulled-from-app-stores-in-south-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216290","title":{"rendered":"Privacy-problematic DeepSeek pulled from app stores in South Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>In a media briefing held Monday, the South Korean <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Personal_Information_Protection_Commission_(South_Korea)\">Personal Information Protection Commission<\/a> indicated that it had paused new downloads within the country of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek&#8217;s mobile app. The restriction took effect on Saturday and doesn&#8217;t affect South Korean users who already have the app installed on their devices. The DeepSeek service also remains accessible in South Korea via the web.<\/p>\n<p>Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/south-koreas-data-protection-authority-suspends-local-service-deepseek-2025-02-17\/\">Reuters<\/a>, PIPC explained that representatives from DeepSeek acknowledged the company had &#8220;partially neglected&#8221; some of its obligations under South Korea&#8217;s data protection laws, which provide South Koreans some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cookie-script.com\/privacy-laws\/south-korean-data-privacy-law\">strictest privacy protections<\/a> globally.<\/p>\n<p>PIPC investigation division director Nam Seok is quoted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/south-korea-deepseek-app-downloads-privacy-concerns-ai-20950f357276b9bb8f2a70a4b3c03e96\">Associated Press<\/a> as saying DeepSeek &#8220;lacked transparency about third-party data transfers and potentially collected excessive personal information.&#8221; DeepSeek reportedly has dispatched a representative to South Korea to work through any issues and bring the app into compliance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/02\/south-korea-pauses-deepseek-app-downloads-over-privacy-concerns\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2025\/02\/south-korea-pauses-deepseek-app-downloads-over-privacy-concerns\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a media briefing held Monday, the South Korean Personal Information Protection Commission indicated that it had paused new downloads within the country of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek&#8217;s mobile app. The restriction took effect on Saturday and doesn&#8217;t affect South &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216290\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1216290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1216290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1216290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1216290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}