02-19-2025, 02:42 PM
This post was last modified 02-19-2025, 05:58 PM by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Edited 3 times in total.
South Korea's data protection watchdog confirmed Tuesday that DeepSeek, the AI chatbot developed by a Chinese startup, transferred user data to ByteDance, Tiktok's parent company, without proper disclosure.
"We found that DeepSeek’s user data was leaked to ByteDance," a spokesperson from the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) reportedly said at a media briefing. "When users accessed DeepSeek, their information was being passed on to ByteDance as well."
The PIPC has not yet been able to determine what data has been transferred and to what extent.
https://www.lightreading.com/regulatory-...y-watchdog
The CEO's of both companies, DeepSeek and ByteDance are allegedly high ranking members of the People's Liberation Army.
https://x.com/NFSCSpeak/status/188681670...&s=19&mx=2
Cybersecurity experts at Ontario-based Feroot Security said that DeepSeek contains hidden code capable of transmitting user data to China Mobile's online registry, CMPassport.com.
Feroot Security researchers analyzed the browser-based version of DeepSeek and found encrypted code designed to send user data to CMPassport.com. The company said on its website that the discovery suggests that the app may be facilitating unauthorized data collection on a global scale.
It added that the discovery raises significant privacy and national security concerns, especially since China Mobile is a state-controlled telco that was previously delisted from the New York Stock Exchange due to security risks.
"We see direct links to servers and to companies in China that are under control of the Chinese government. And this is something that we have never seen in the past," Feroot CEO Ivan Tsarynny told ABC News.
Furthermore, Feroot Security discovered that DeepSeek also creates a digital fingerprint of users, tracking their activity across multiple websites. The company noted that such tracking capabilities significantly heighten the risk of personal data being monitored by foreign entities.
It is conceivable that even local installations of DeepSeek are covertly transmitting data via a software hack that can transform a internal data cable into a short distance radio transmitter.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/devili...steal-data
"We found that DeepSeek’s user data was leaked to ByteDance," a spokesperson from the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC) reportedly said at a media briefing. "When users accessed DeepSeek, their information was being passed on to ByteDance as well."
The PIPC has not yet been able to determine what data has been transferred and to what extent.
https://www.lightreading.com/regulatory-...y-watchdog
The CEO's of both companies, DeepSeek and ByteDance are allegedly high ranking members of the People's Liberation Army.
https://x.com/NFSCSpeak/status/188681670...&s=19&mx=2
Cybersecurity experts at Ontario-based Feroot Security said that DeepSeek contains hidden code capable of transmitting user data to China Mobile's online registry, CMPassport.com.
Feroot Security researchers analyzed the browser-based version of DeepSeek and found encrypted code designed to send user data to CMPassport.com. The company said on its website that the discovery suggests that the app may be facilitating unauthorized data collection on a global scale.
It added that the discovery raises significant privacy and national security concerns, especially since China Mobile is a state-controlled telco that was previously delisted from the New York Stock Exchange due to security risks.
"We see direct links to servers and to companies in China that are under control of the Chinese government. And this is something that we have never seen in the past," Feroot CEO Ivan Tsarynny told ABC News.
Furthermore, Feroot Security discovered that DeepSeek also creates a digital fingerprint of users, tracking their activity across multiple websites. The company noted that such tracking capabilities significantly heighten the risk of personal data being monitored by foreign entities.
It is conceivable that even local installations of DeepSeek are covertly transmitting data via a software hack that can transform a internal data cable into a short distance radio transmitter.
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/devili...steal-data
