Deepseek is the fashion model. The problem is that nobody knows very well what you are doing with our data

If you are a user of Chatgptit is likely that in the last week you have tried Deepseek. He Chinese ia chatbot It is so promising that It has become a serious threat to many of the American technological giants. Not only is it an open source proposal that can work very well at home (in a certain hardware), but also has a free online version that, at least for the moment, allows unlimited consultations. There is also one Payment API whose rates are very competitive.

When we use chatbots like Deepseek we usually share a lot of information. These tools have become allies when planning vacations, summarizing documents, making budgets, analyzing images, among other things. Their language models swallow every word that we introduce to give us the answers we are looking for or an approach that we can refine to Prompts.

What do they do with our data?

Now, after the initial crush of discovering a new application of ia, let’s ask ourselves What happens to our data. Do they disappear after being processed by the model? Do we give them perpetuity to a company that we don’t even know? Are they stored as a treasure for training future iterations of the model? Certainly there are many questions, many, but they are not completely new.

We already asked ourselves many of these questions when Chatgpt achieved popularity. Perhaps we did not ask ourselves the questions, but several European regulators were asked, which forced the company led by Sam Altman to make some changes to continue operating in certain countries of the block. Deepseek is the new star, and sooner or later these questions should appear on the scene.

In the midst of so many questions there are some certainties: Deepseek collects a huge amount of data. This is probably not a surprise for some, but for others who have just started using chatbot. To have more clarity about the PRIVACY PRACTICES OF THE CHINISH COMPANY we can consult its page of Privacy Policy.

Let’s start at the beginning, Hangzhou Deepseek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd. and Beijing Deepseek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd. collect information on the profile of users, such as username, date of birth (if applicable), address of email and/or telephone number and password. Our chats also collect, that is, texts, audios, charged files, comments, history. Everything goes to these companies.

Suppose you have a question about Depseek and use the contact paths to talk to them. Well, the aforementioned organizations will also collect all the information you send. From identity or age tests, comments or consultations about the service. Everything mentioned so far is within a category called “Information you provide.”

Within the range of information collected by companies behind Depseek we find another category called “automatically collected information.” Here they are made with our device model, operating system (and the language of the), IP address, cookies and diagnostic data and performance. They will also capture the keys of keys, and everything will be associated with a device ID and a user ID.

It is not possible to quote our data, but there are no doubt that they are valuable. One way to measure its value is to size everything they drive. First, Depseek uses the data collected to train your AI models. Companies also talk about “interactions supervision”, and at this point we are not sure if there are humans analyzing conversations.

In the documents of the companies we find other interesting information, such as that “review the entries and exits of the user and other information to protect the security and well -being” of the community. They also collect data to comply with legal obligations, to “carry out public interest tasks” and to notify changes in services. Later we will see where the data of the millions of Deepseek users are stored.

The data collected by Depseek does not stay in Deepseek

Deepseek says in its privacy policy that you can share the information collected from all categories indicated above. We go in parts. First, we can mention corporate group entitiesthat is, actors that are under the umbrella of organizations that control Deepseek. But there is more. They can also be sent to “advertising or analytical partners.”

Possibly remember that paragraphs above we point out that the information collected is labeled with a device ID and a user ID. Well, these identifiers are usually very useful to track user activity and cross it with that of other platforms. At this point Depseek mentions that you can use activity from other sites and services, but in some jurisdictions. It is not clear how this will be applied in the European Union.

Deepseek also explains that they can share the information collected with “the agencies responsible for enforcing the law, Public authoritiesthe head of copyright or other third parties if we believe in good faith that is necessary. ” In other words, they can give this data to the government. While this occurs in almost any jurisdiction, we must pay special attention to China, which has been involved in several controversies in this regard.

There are numerous investigations that point against the Chinese Communist Party (PCCH) and Laws of the People’s Republic of China for forcing the technology companies of their country to provide data to relevant information. A document of United States National Security Department points out that the Government urges companies to install rear doors To help in operations to maintain national security.

One of Tiktok’s conflict points It was precisely the one we just mentioned. The data of the Americans were apparently exposed to foreign actors. To address this concern, Bytedance, the social network matrix, An agreement with Oracle arrived To store the data of the United States users in their territory, also submitting them to legislation the North American country.

Besides, We have spoken a lot about how strict the regulation towards technological ones in the European Union. The General Data Protection Regulation (RGPD) It is key in this matter, offering a fairly clear guideline that companies that operate within the territory must meet. Deepseek, even if you have His servers in China, are not without fulfilling these obligations to continue operating normally.

OpenAi chatgpt faced several investigations in Europe and A prohibition in Italy for violating in RGPD. The Italian data protection authority known as guarantor requested A battery of measures To the company led by Sam Altman so that he could offer the service again, including a clear privacy policy, tools so that users can erase their personal data and registration control by age.

It is not clear if Depseek meets these and other demands of European legislation. While chatbot allows you to eliminate chat history, it is not clear if they are also eliminated from their servers (and consequently are not used for training tasks). We have also not found an option to prevent the content of the conversations from being used to improve future iterations of the underlying language model.

It should be noted that the policy of the companies indicates some of these points. For example, he says that registered users can “access, review and update certain personal information.” The problem is that the paths to do so do not seem to be very simple Deepseek invites those interested in making use of their rights to get in touch with them OA Control part of data collection through browser cookies configuration.

We have written to Deepseek for more information about its data collection practices and compliance with European regulations. We will update this article when we receive an answer.

Images | Deepseek + Philipp Katzenberger | Alejandro Luengo | Screen capture

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