DeepSeek app faces ban in Germany for illegal transfer of user data (searchenginejournal.com)

This is a relatively new thing. Apple only recently started listening to EU about banning stuff from app stores on the request of EU states.

AFAIK Italy banning Deepseek in January 2025 was the first and only time which Apple blanket banned a service from app stores under GDPR (as opposed to DSA).

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So when will US companies be banned for the illegal transfer of data? Especially Microsoft in the government and schools which was already ruled illegal but Office, Teams, etc. are still used.

Wait, if the inference server-farm is in China, then obv. the data will go to China, no ?

There are probably other more valuable avenues for siphoning training data, EU users is not one.

Could the bureaucrats be satiated with a 20-page risk warning signed with user's digital finger blood instead?

Can they transfer any user data when I don't give them permission or is it just about the chat conversation which obviously they transfer??

This is coming from the US. They're just using Germany as their proxy to go after China. This whole mess with tying ourselves to Israel has revealed a lot of the countries that just act like proxies for US policies.

When its coming from the US, that means its coming from the corporations that control the US. So this is actually coming from US companies doing AI trying to minimize China's AI.

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