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

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.

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

Italy's data protection authority said on Thursday it had blocked Chinese artificial intelligence model DeepSeek over a lack of information on its use of personal data. The authority, known as Garante,