DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, launched its app in January 2025. A couple of weeks later, it conquered the first place in Apple’s App Store downloads for free apps, surpassing ChatGPT. Its arrival also crashed stocks of major AI chip makers like NVIDIA and other tech companies like Microsoft. Since then, DeepSeek has been surrounded by controversies related to its data handling policies. Now, South Korea’s data protection regulator has accused DeepSeek of sharing user data with ByteDance. South Korea has accused DeepSeek of sharing user data with ByteDance The Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC), South Korea’s national data protection...