China is garnering praise from the world for DeepSeek, but this country gave a big blow.

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Italy's data protection authority on Thursday blocked access to the Chinese AI application DeepSeek to protect users' data. It announced an investigation into the companies behind the chatbot. The authority, called Garante, has expressed dissatisfaction with DeepSeek's answers to its initial questions. What personal data is collected? Where is it stored? And how are users informed about it?

The authorization results were reversed after the companies announced that they do not operate in Italy and that European laws do not apply to them. Given that the app was downloaded by millions of people worldwide in just a few days, DeepSeek's new chatbot has raised the stakes in the AI ​​technology race, shaking up markets and catching up with US generative AI leaders at a much lower cost.

Australia's Science Minister Ed Husic was the first among Western governments to raise questions about the personal data being shared here. He questioned DeepSeek's privacy policy and said that personal data should not be used for other intelligence purposes.

What is Deepseek?

DeepSeek is a Chinese AI company. It was formed in the southeastern Chinese city of Hangzhou. According to Sensor Tower, a mobile app market intelligence platform, the company was launched in July 2023. However, its popular AI assistant app was not released in the US until January 10.

After the arrival of China's new AI company DeepSeek, tension in America has also increased. Not only this, Japan is also very much affected by it. Regarding DeepSeek, US President Donald Trump has described it as a warning to the US industries.

He said that this should be a wake-up call for American tech companies. At the same time, after the arrival of this tech model, there has been a huge decline in the tech stocks of America. DeepSeek's chatbot became the most downloaded free app over the weekend. It was downloaded the most on Apple's US App Store.