Her principles South Korea announced today that they withdrew the Deepseek From the online application stores to how the Chinese Start Up specializing in Artificial Intelligence (AI) manages users’ data.

For its part, China reacted, demanding that technological issues be “politicized”.

“We hope that interested countries will avoid taking measures that are excessively expanding the concept of security and not politicizing commercial and technological issues,” Guo Ziakun said a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry.

South Korea is between countries such as Italy, France or Australia, which have expressed concerns about the protection of privacy of users, but also for their national security after the presentation of Deepseek’s new artificial intelligence tool.

The process that has begun aims to “examine DEEPSEEK’s practices in detail the management of personal data in order to ensure that they respect” legislation, said Chi Zang-Huk Vice President Press conference duration.

At the end of January, the South Korean regulatory authority had announced that it had requested explanations from Deepseek about how it manages the information provided by its users.

Since then, the Chinese company has “acknowledged some shortcomings” on respect for the privacy of its users, the South Korean regulatory authority said today.

She emphasized that “it will inevitably take some time” to correct the situation, hence the decision to withdraw the application from the online stores.

As a result, users in South Korea cannot download the R1, the Deepseek chatbox since Saturday night, but this is still working for those who already had it.

The South Korean regulatory authority asked R1 users “to use the service carefully, awaiting the final results (ongoing research), mainly avoiding introducing their personal information”.

At the beginning of the month, many South Korean ministries, such as defense and trade, excluded Deepseek access to their computers.

The R1 has caused the concern of many countries, despite the fact that Deepseek has a clause to transfer the personal data of its users to third parties. Although this is equivalent to the clause of Chatgpt, the American company Openai, experts have expressed concerns about the risk that personal data will fall into the hands of the Chinese authorities.

Beijing, for its part, assures that the Chinese government “will never demand companies or persons to gather or save illegally.”

Taiwan has already banned government agencies from using the Chatbox R1, referring to the dangers of “national security”, while Australia has called for Deepseek programs from government devices.

Italy’s personal data protection Authority has launched an investigation into the Chinese company, in which it has banned it from using Italian users’ personal data.

France’s corresponding regulatory authority (CNIL) as well as Ireland (DPC) – which sets regulatory rules for EU technology giants – have requested explanations from Deepseek about how it manages its users’ data.

In the US, there has been a bill on the ban on Deepseek, which MP Darin Lahud has described as a “company associated with the Chinese Communist Party” in government devices for security reasons.