Description: The South Korean National Intelligence Service (NIS) has announced that Chinese AI – app DeepSeek excessively collected personal data and used it to train itself. NIS announced that the app could recognize people analyzing keyboard patterns, collect personal data and send it to China – based servers, according to Chinese digital law regulations. South Korea had joined Australia and Taiwan in banning the app citing severe security and privacy concerns.
Impact: Since its introduction DeepSeek had stirred the AI industry waters, with its disruption of the global AI market and the apparent information collection which is imbedded in the app. Evident connection has been made between the app and the Chinese government which indicated on unilateral usage of the app for collecting information in areas of interest. The app is expected to be further censored or banned from multiple countries due to security and privacy concerns, although it’s still unclear how much it has been systematically imbedded into national digital systems since its introduction. China used DeepSeek to cause market crashes in which tech companies such as Nvidia lost up to $600 billion dollars, which further indicated that DeepSeek was and will be used as part of the ongoing trade war between China and the US.