China-developed DeepSeek AI has raised plenty of privacy and security concerns since its launch, with some governments no longer offering the service at all or launching investigations into its data-handling practices. In terms of privacy, however, the Chinese chatbot may not be the worst offender.
As per recent data from Surfshark, one of the best VPN providers on the market, Google Gemini takes the gold medal for the most data-hungry AI chatbot app. DeepSeek comes, in fact, only fifth out of the 10 most popular applications for aggressive data collection.
