In the space of a week, several more EU data protection authorities (DPAs) announced that they plan to investigate the Chinese generative AI platform Deepseek. According to EURACTIV, out of sixteen DPAs asked, seven confirmed that they had either opened or planned to investigate the platform's processing operations. The list of seven DPAs includes Ireland, Italy, Croatia, Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Cyprus. In a separate post, Reuters confirmed that the Dutch DPA has also launched an investigation into the AI platform, taking the total to eight.
Italy is the first DPA to issue a banning order preventing the processing of Italian users' data after the two Chinese companies operating Deepseek said that "they do not operate in Italy and that European legislation does not apply to them." Meanwhile, Reuters reports that a complaint about DeepSeek has been filed with the Belgium DPA.
In related news, an amusing article in The Guardian notes the bitter twist of irony that has befallen OpenAI CEO Sam Altman following his claims that Deepseek could have potentially made unauthorised use of his chatbot models, including ChatGPT. The nerve of these people, accessing protected works without permission.
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