Italy: Regime blocks China’s DeepSeek over supposed privacy concerns

Source: Politico

“Italy’s data protection authority has ordered a block on Chinese artificial intelligence revelation DeepSeek, it said late on Thursday. The regulator said it has ordered Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence and Beijing DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence — the Chinese companies behind the DeepSeek chatbot — to stop processing Italians’ data with immediate effect. The move comes after DeepSeek apparently told the authorities it wouldn’t cooperate with a request for information made by the agency.” (01/31/25)

https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-blocks-chinas-deepseek-over-privacy-concerns