DeepSeek’s newest R1 large language model has already become notorious after its release cratered AI stocks, and revelations about its privacy policy might raise eyebrows even more — the company records extensive data from its online users, including keystrokes, passwords, and data entered in queries like images and text, and then stores it in China-based servers.
Personal information, including date of birth, email addresses, phone numbers, and passwords, are all fair game, according to DeepSeek. Any content users give to the R1 LLM, from text and audio prompts to uploaded files, may also be collected by DeepSeek. And whenever someone contacts DeepSeek, it says it might keep users’ proof of identity, which presumably means documents like a driver’s license.
