{"id":369685,"date":"2025-02-17T08:55:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T03:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/south-korea-removes-deepseek-from-app-stores-existing-users-advised-to-service-with-caution-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T09:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T03:30:14","slug":"south-korea-removes-deepseek-from-app-stores-existing-users-advised-to-service-with-caution-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/south-korea-removes-deepseek-from-app-stores-existing-users-advised-to-service-with-caution-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"South Korea removes DeepSeek from app stores, existing users advised to \u2018service with caution\u2019 &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-index-0\">\n<p>South Korea&#8217;s data protection authority has suspended the new downloads of DeepSeek app after the Chinese AI startup failed to take into account the country&#8217;s rules on personal data protection.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-1\">\n<p>Choi Jang-hyuk, vice chairperson of Seoul&#8217;s Personal Information Protection Commission, confirmed the suspension on new downloads of DeepSeek (via AFP) and stated that authorities will &#8220;thoroughly examine DeepSeek&#8217;s personal data processing practices to ensure compliance&#8221; with the local laws.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-2\">\n<p>Meanwhile, the domestic data protection agency said that DeepSeek had \u00a0&#8220;acknowledged that considerations for domestic privacy laws were somewhat lacking&#8221;. It further stated that bringing DeepSeek in line with South Korea&#8217;s privacy laws &#8220;would inevitably take a significant amount of time&#8221;, it added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-3\">\n<p>&#8220;To prevent further concerns from spreading, the commission recommended that DeepSeek temporarily suspend its service while making the necessary improvements,&#8221; Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) was quoted as saying by AFP.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-index-4\">\n<p>\u201cExisting users are&#8230; strongly advised to use the service with caution until the final results are announced, including refraining from entering personal information into the DeepSeek input field,\u201d the data protection authority added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s data protection authority has suspended the new downloads of DeepSeek app after the Chinese AI startup failed to take into account the country&#8217;s rules on personal data protection.\u00a0 Choi Jang-hyuk, vice chairperson of Seoul&#8217;s Personal Information Protection Commission, confirmed the suspension on new downloads of DeepSeek (via AFP) and stated that authorities will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[440,188,183,5834,185,186,27678,27679,187,184,189,6945,150,182,190],"class_list":["post-369685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-blockchain-tech","tag-blockchain-technology","tag-chatgpt","tag-crypto-technology","tag-cryptocurrency-technology","tag-deepseek","tag-deepseek-ai","tag-metaverse-technology","tag-nft-technology","tag-soul-bound-token","tag-south-korea","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-token-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369685"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369692,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369685\/revisions\/369692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}