By Asmita - Jan 31, 2025
DeepSeek, a data-efficient AI assistant, faces removal from Italy's app stores due to data privacy concerns. After a complaint by a consumer rights group and inadequate response to data storage practices, the Italian Data Protection Authority restricts DeepSeek from processing Italian user data. This move follows a sharp decline in NVIDIA's market valuation, attributed to DeepSeek's increasing download popularity.
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Image of ChatGPT, a global chat app, with a note about Deepseek's removal from Italy's app and play stores. via FMT
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Deepseek is unavailable in Italy. Amid data privacy concerns, DeepSeek is being removed from Italy’s app store. So, Deepseek can’t be downloaded in Italy. It is facing scrutiny in Europe as DeepSeek has vanished from the App Store and Play Store in Italy. Removal of DeepSeek happens just after Euroconsumers, a consumer rights group, filed a complaint, questioning its way of handling data. In response, the Italian watchdog asked DeepSeek to provide storage data practice within 20 days.
However, their response was not sufficient, due to which an immediate action is being taken by the Italian Data Protection Authority by restricting the company from processing data from Italian users.DeepSeek recently launched a free, data-efficient AI assistant, which also led to the largest stock decline in US history as NVIDIA lost almost 600 billion dollars in market valuation. Its main aim is to achieve artificial general intelligence and increase reasoning capabilities.
Downloads of DeepSeek are being increased, which has sunk some tech stocks. Trump said that it was a “wake-up call” for US companies who must focus on “competing to win."DeepSeek is special because it claims that it’s being built at a fraction of the cost of leading models like OpenAI. It works much like ChatGPT and is almost as powerful as OpenAI. It is trained to avoid any political questions.
