Taiwan says government departments should not use DeepSeek, citing security concerns

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TAIPEI ( Reuters )- Taiwan’s digital ministry said on Friday that government departments should not use Chinese startup DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence ( AI ) service, saying that as the product is from China it represents a security concern.

Given Beijing’s promises to control the area and its military and political threats to Taiwan, a democratically governed nation, for years, Taiwan has long been wary of Chinese technology.

In a statement, Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs said that government agencies are not allowed to employ DeepSeek’s AI services to “prevent information security risks”.

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” DeepSeek’s AI services is a Chinese product, and its operation involves cross-border transfer and data leak and other information security issues, and is a product that jeopardises the country’s information protection”, the ministry said.

The government will continue to stay on top of up-to-date with latest technological developments and produce “timely adjustments” to its information security procedures to ensure security, it continued.

South Korea’s data privacy watchdog announced earlier on Friday that it would be requesting inquiries from DeepSeek regarding how user private data is handled.

Officials in France, Italy, Ireland, and other nations have also been looking into how personal information is used by DeepSeek.

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By Monday, DeepSeek’s free AI associate had overtaken U. S. rival ChatGPT in uploads from Apple’s app store and international investors dumped U. S. tech stocks, wiping$ 593 billion off chipmaker Nvidia’s market value in a record one-day reduction for any company on Wall Street.

( Reporting by Ben Blanchard, Editing by Frances Kerry )

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