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DeepSeek shows signs of obscuring data flows, South Korea’s privacy watchdog finds

By Jenny Lee ( February 24, 2025, 07:58 GMT | Insight) -- Signs have emerged that DeepSeek could have deliberately engineered its system to obscure data flows, South Korea's top privacy regulator said in his first official comments since new downloads of the Chinese AI model were blocked in the country. Ko Hak-soo, chairman of the Personal Information Protection Commission, said that DeepSeek relies more heavily on “hard coding” than other generative AI models, making it significantly harder for third parties to analyze its code or determine what data it processes.Signs have emerged that DeepSeek could have deliberately engineered its system to obscure data flows, South Korea's top privacy regulator said in his first official comments since new downloads of the Chinese AI model were blocked in the country....

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