by Seoul, Zuid -Korea -The Authority of the data protection of Zuid -Korea said Monday that new downloads from the Chinese AI app Deepseek were suspended in the country after Deepseek acknowledged that it was not monitored with the rules of the office for The protection of personal data.
The service of the app is resumed as soon as improvements have been made in accordance with the country’s privacy legislation, the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) said in a media briefing.
The measure that came into effect on Saturday is intended to block new downloads from the app, the agency said, although the web service of Deepseek remains accessible in the country.
The Chinese startup appointed legal representatives in South Korea last week and had partially neglected the considerations of the country’s data protection legislation, the PIPC said.
The Italian data protection authority, the guarantee, said last month that the Deepseek had ordered to block its chatbot in the country after he had not tackled the regulator of the regulator about her privacy policy.
Deepseek did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Asked for earlier movements of the South Korean government departments to block Deepseek, a spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs told a briefing on 6 February that the Chinese government attached great importance to data privacy and safety and protected them in accordance with the law.
The spokesperson also said that Beijing would never ask a company or person to collect or store data in violation of laws.
