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

The jury is still out on whether the Chinese AI upstart DeepSeek is a game changer or part of an elaborate plan by its hedge fund parent company to short

The Italian regulator is the first European authority to report it is going after the app. DeepSeek has 20 days to respond to the questions, which puts the deadline on Feb. 17. Consumer groups Euroconsumers and Italy’s Altroconsumo said they’d earlier told the authority that they believed DeepSeek’s data handling breached EU rules.

The Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek could not be accessed on Wednesday in Apple and Google app stores in Italy, the day after the country's data protection authority requested information on its use of personal data.

Italy’s data protection authority has blocked use of Chinese tech startup DeepSeek’s AI application to protect Italians’ data and announced an investigation into the companies behind the chatbot