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German data protection officer wants to ban China's DeepSeek from app stores, says data transfer to China is "extremely critical" (dpa-international.com)
submitted 6 days ago by Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/38550444

The Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) application DeepSeek is set to be removed from app stores in Germany at the behest of the federal data protection officer, Louisa Specht-Riemenschneider, due to violations of European law.

"China does not have a level of data protection that corresponds to our General Data Protection Regulation," she told the newspapers of the Funke media group. Data transfers to China are "extremely critical," she said.

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Specht-Riemenschneider said she supports the initiative of the Berlin data protection officer and did not accept criticism that data protection is a hindrance to innovation.

"Data protection is a guarantee of trust. It can even be a competitive advantage," said Specht-Riemenschneider. "What hinders innovation is legal uncertainty in the market. And this also stems from a proliferation of digital legislation."

She said that digital legislation in Europe must be better coordinated, with clear rules including for data protection.

Authorities in South Korea, Italy, Taiwan and Australia have already taken action against DeepSeek.

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[–] PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

hmm. and data transfer to america is fine?

deepseek made it possible to use the model offline as well. I dont see why we have to be hypocrits here.

edit: yes I know its about the app, and for the app the acusation is fair. but in general the news is not as hot as its written here.

[–] XLE@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago

Well this is a Hotznplotzn post, which means OP doesn't give a damn about data collection by American companies... or anything, really, besides reminding us China Bad

[–] Hotznplotzn@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

hmm. and data transfer to america is fine?

Who says that?

[–] PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 days ago

I mean that calling deepseek out for shady privacy practice is fine, but by open sourcing their model they are at least better than most american providers.