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Chiara Castro

Italy launches DeepSeek investigation over privacy concerns

DeepSeek on an iPhone.

About a week after its release, Italy became the first country to formally request a probe into how DeepSeek's chatbot handles users' personal data.

"Possible risk to the data of millions of people in Italy," wrote the Italian data watchdog authority, known as the Garante, on Tuesday, January 28, 2025, in an official announcement.

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