The Australian Minister of Industry and Science today expressed his concern regarding privacy protection on the occasion of the Chinese Intelligence Society (AI) Deepseek, asking its users to be “very careful”.

R1, the latest model of Chinese Start-Up Deepseek, has caused disruption to financial markets, surprising the sector and analysts with its ability to have a corresponding performance with the American giants of AI (such as Openai’s Chatgpt and Google’s Gemini ), which until recently dominated the sector at a much lower cost.

“There are many questions that need answers to quality, consumer preferences, data management and privacy,” Ed Hasik said, speaking at Australian state television station ABC.

He insisted on the need to “be very careful” in front of the Chinese chatbox.

Hasik estimated that Chinese companies are sometimes different from their western competitors in issues such as protecting privacy and data management.

According to him, “Chinese are very good at developing products that work very well” and the Chinese market “is common in their approach to data and privacy”

But “as soon as you export your products to markets where consumers have different expectations related to privacy and data management, the question arises as to whether these products will be accepted in the same way,” the Australian minister said.

In 2018 Australia had blocked the Chinese Giant of the Huawei telecommunications from the country’s 5G network for national security reasons.