The final category Deepseek reserves the right to collect in other sources. For example, if you create a DeepSeek account using Google or Apple login, it will receive information from those businesses. Advertisers also share information with DeepSeek, according to the policy, and this may include “mobile identifiers for advertising, email addresses and phone numbers, and cookie identifiers we use to help you and your actions out of service.”
How Deepsheek Information uses
Large amount of data can flow from Deepseeek’s international user base to China, but the company still has power over how to use the information. Deepseek Privacy Policy says the company will use data in many typical ways, including keeping its service, enforce its conditions and conditions and make improvements.
The company’s privacy policy indicates that the user’s directions in developing new models can utilize. The company will “review, improve and develop the service, including interactions and use on your devices, analyze how people use them, and by training and improving our technology,” the policy states.
Deepseek Privacy Policy also says the company will also use information to “meet our legal obligations” – a blanket clause that includes many companies in their policies. Deepseek Privacy Policy says that access to data can be obtained from its ‘corporate group’ and that it will share information with law enforcement agencies, public authorities, and more, when necessary to do so.
Although all businesses have legal obligations, those based in China have significant responsibilities. Over the past decade, Chinese officials have adopted a series of cyber security and privacy laws intended to allow civil servants to claim data from technical enterprises. One 2017 Act, for example, says that organizations and citizens’ must ‘cooperate with national intelligence efforts.’
These laws, together with growing US -China and other geopolitical factors, fueled safety fears on tapping. The app can harvest large amounts of data and return it to China, which has argued in favor of the Tiktok ban, and the app can also be used to push Chinese propaganda. (Tiktok has denied that our users data sent to the government of China.) Meanwhile, several DeepSeek users have already pointed out that the platform does not provide answers to questions about the Tiananmen Square slaughter in 1989, and answered a few questions In ways that sound like propaganda.
Willemsen says that compared to users on a social media platform such as tapping, people involved with a generative AI system are more actively involved and the content can feel more personal. In short, any influence can be greater. “The risks of subliminal content change, the management of the discussion, in active involvement, must lead to more concerns by logic, no less,” he says. “Especially given how the inner operation of the model is widely unknown, the thresholds, borders, controls, censorships and intention/personae have largely left unbeated, and it is so popular in childhood.”
Olejnik, from King’s College London, says although the Tiktok ban was a specific situation, US lawmakers or those in other countries were able to act again at a similar starting point. “We cannot exclude that 2025 will bring an extension: direct action against AI firms,” says Olejnik. “Of course, data collection can be called again as the reason.”
Updated 17:27 EST, January 27, 2025: added additional details on the Deepseek website activity.