During DeepSeek's presence in South Korea, it transferred user data to several firms in China and the U.S. without obtaining the necessary consent from users or disclosing the practice, the PIPC said.

Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek was transferring personal data to a cloud services platform without users’ consent while it was still available for download, South Korea’s data ...

DeepSeek has defended itself by saying that the data was passed on to improve the user experience, but this explanation is not accepted by South Korea’s data protection authority.

South Korea's data protection agency said DeepSeek had voluntarily decided to make the app available for download, which it is free to do after at least partially reflecting its recommendations.