The European privacy watchdog is concerned about DeepSeek’s rising popularity.
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has reservations about DeepSeek, the new AI model from Chinese start-up Scale AI. The Italian watchdog previously blocked DeepSeek in the country, but now a monthly meeting of European regulators shows that other countries are also concerned, Reuters reported.
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European regulator including Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and France have reservations about DeepSeek’s data collection method. This new AI model recently rocked the AI world with its delivered performance at a low training cost.
“Several DPAs (data protection authorities) have already taken actions against DeepSeek and more may follow in the future,” a spokesperson for the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) said in an email after the meeting.
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Those concerns caused the EDPB to expand its AI task force, originally focused on OpenAI’s ChatGPT, to include other AI tools such as DeepSeek.
“Moreover, the EDPB members underscore the need to coordinate the actions of data protection authorities on urgent sensitive matters and will establish a rapid response team to that end,” the spokesperson said.