MILAN (AP) — Italy’s data protection authority on Thursday blocked access to the Chinese AI application DeepSeek to protect users' data and announced an investigation into the companies behind ...

The letter from Ireland’s DPA was sent less than 24 hours after the data protection watchdog in Italy sent a similar note to the company. DeepSeek has yet to respond to either request publicly.

Gavel And Scales Of Justice and National flag of Italy DeepSeek, a name most people have never heard of until last week, is a relatively unknown Chinese AI startup that has taken the tech industry ...

MILAN, Jan 31 (Reuters) - (This Jan. 31 story has been refiled to fix the hyperlink in paragraph 2) Italy's data protection authority, the Garante, said on Thursday it had ordered DeepSeek to ...

Italy’s data protection authority on Thursday blocked access to the Chinese AI application DeepSeek to protect users' data and announced an investigation into the companies behind the chatbot.

ROME, Jan 28 (Reuters) - Italy's data protection authority said on Tuesday it was seeking answers from Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) model DeepSeek on its use of personal data. The Italian ...

Italy has become the first country to ban DeepSeek AI, with authorities citing data privacy and ethical concerns. The move follows an investigation launched into DeepSeek's compliance with ...

About a week after its release, Italy became the first country to formally request a probe into how DeepSeek's chatbot handles users' personal data. "Possible risk to the data of millions of ...

Also included: the public sector departments that have prohibited DeepSeek tech. Italy became one of the first countries to ban DeepSeek following an investigation by the country’s privacy ...

Other nations are no doubt watching, but Italy has become the first country to hit DeepSeek with an information request about how it is using the data it collects. Garante, or the Italian Data ...