Italy’s data protection authority has ordered a block on Chinese artificial intelligence revelation DeepSeek, it said late on Thursday.

Italy wanted to know what personal data is collected, from which sources and for what purposes. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Chinese AI model will have to provide information on the processing of EU data after politicians, NGOs and researchers expressed concerns about the safety of Europeans. View on euronews

Italy's data protection authority said on Thursday it had blocked Chinese artificial intelligence model DeepSeek over a lack of information on its use of personal data. The authority, known as Garante,

DeepSeek, a Chinese AI chatbot, swiftly rose to the top of app stores this week, and it's just as swiftly rising in priority for data protection watchdog agencies worldwide. DeepSeek's privacy policy has many aspects that might concern users,