According to South Korean authorities on Monday, DeepSeek, a Taiwanese artificial intelligence company, has temporarily halted downloads of its bot apps while collaborating with local authorities to handle privacy concerns.
The company agreed to work with the company to improve privacy protections before relaunching the software, according to South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission, which announced DeepSeek’s programs were removed from the regional editions of Apple’s App Store and Google Play on Saturday night.
People who have already installed DeekSeek on their phones or who use it on individual computers are not affected by the activity. DeepSeek users in South Korea should remove the app from their devices or evade entering personal information until the issues are resolved, according to Nam Seok, director of the North Korean commission’s investigation division.
In response to concerns that the AI type was storing too much sensitive information, many South Korean government organizations and businesses have neither blocked DeepSeek from their systems or prohibited employees from using the application for function.
The South Korean private committee, which began reviewing DeepSeek’s services last month, found that the company lacked transparency about third-party data transfers and possibly collected increased private information, Nam said.
Nam claimed that the payment had no idea how many people use DeepSeek in South Korea. According to a recent research from Wiseapp Retail, DeepSeek was used by roughly 1.2 million smartphone users in South Korea during the third month of January, making it the second-most-popular AI type after ChatGPT.