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Italy orders DeepSeek to stop processing Italian users’ data

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Source: Garante per la protezione dei dati personali

Italy’s Garante ordered Hangzhou DeepSeek and Beijing DeepSeek, with immediate effect, to limit processing of personal data of people in Italy, after the companies said EU data law did not apply to them. It cited an English-only privacy policy without a legal basis for each use, storage of data in China and no EU representative, and opened an investigation.

Why it matters

DeepSeek’s chatbot had to stop handling the personal data of people in Italy ten days after its R1 model was released, pending the Garante’s investigation.

When
30 Jan 2025
ID
WTA-N-2025-0165
Who
Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, DeepSeek
Authority
Garante per la protezione dei dati personali
Target
DeepSeek
Action
processing limitation order; investigation
Status
open · Enforcement ledger

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Garante per la protezione dei dati personali. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Garante per la protezione dei dati personali

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2025-0165: “Italy orders DeepSeek to stop processing Italian users’ data.” wheresthe.ai, 30 Jan 2025. https://wheresthe.ai/d/it-garante-deepseek-block-2025-01/ (source: Garante per la protezione dei dati personali).

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