China’s DeepSeek AI shared user data with ByteDance, claims South Korea

outh Korea’s data protection regulator has alleged that Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek’s chatbot shared user data with ByteDance, the owner of social media giant TikTok, according to a report by Yonhap News.

On Sunday, the South Korean government temporarily halted new downloads of DeepSeek due to concerns over its data collection practices.