DeepSeek transferred data without consent, South Korean watchdog says | Technology News

Personal Information Protection Commission says AI model sent personal data to Beijing-based cloud service.

South Korea’s data protection watchdog has accused DeepSeek, the Chinese start-up whose artificial intelligence-powered chatbot took the tech scene by storm earlier this year, of transferring personal data without users’ consent.

The Personal Information Protection Commission said on Thursday that DeepSeek had been transferring information to several companies in China and the…