DeepSeek, Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) service (Image courtesy of Yonhap)
SEOUL, April 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) service DeepSeek, which stirred controversy last week for the overseas transfer of Korean user information, disclosed a Korean-language version of its partially revised information processing policy Monday.
The move came five days after the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) revealed that DeepSeek transferred Korean users’ personal information to three companies in China and one in the United States without obtaining their consent and disclosing the transfer in its personal information processing policy.
DeepSeek also sent what users entered into the prompts to Volcano, a Chinese company affiliated with ByteDance, the parent company of Chinese social media platform TikTok, the PIPC said, asking the Chinese company to faithfully establish legal grounds for its overseas information transfers, immediately destroy the prompt information and disclose its Korean-language information processing policy.
In its revised policy, DeepSeek established a separate supplementary regulation for South Korea, stating that it will process personal information in compliance with the Korean Personal Information Protection Act.
DeepSeek, which suspended its service in South Korea on Feb. 15 this year, just one month after launch, amid controversy over its data management, has yet to resume the service.
(Yonhap)
