South Korea: DeepSeek removed from app stores after failure on compliance to data protection rules

Seoul [South Korea], February 18 (ANI): South Korea’s Personal Information Commission said that DeepSeek has accepted the proposal to suspend downloads of the AI Chatbot after it acknowledged that DeepSeek had failed to comply with the personal data protection rules, Al Jazeera reported.

As per Al Jazeera, DeepSeek’s R1 chatbot was removed from the local versions of Apple’s App Store and Google Play after it acknowledged that it had failed to comply with personal data protection rules.