Italy Bans Chinese DeepSeek AI Over Data Privacy and Ethical Concerns

Summary: Italy’s data protection authority has blocked the Chinese AI firm DeepSeek’s service due to inadequate clarity regarding its data handling practices and personal data usage. This decision follows concerns over user data collection, potential legal implications, and vulnerabilities in the company’s models, which have raised national security alarms. DeepSeek’s service has faced scrutiny not only for its privacy policy but also for its susceptibility to malicious usage and jailbreak techniques in its language models.

Affected: DeepSeek AI & user data privacy

Keypoints :

• Italy’s Garante data protection authority blocked DeepSeek’s service over insufficient data handling information.
• The watchdog opened a probe after DeepSeek claimed European legislation did not apply to them.
• DeepSeek’s language models exhibited vulnerabilities, allowing malicious outputs and raising ethical concerns related to data sourcing.
• Similar jailbreak vulnerabilities have affected other AI tools, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT and GitHub’s Copilot, enabling misuse.