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South Korea’s privacy regulator suspends new downloads of the DeepSeek app

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Source: The Hacker NewsAlso reported by Reuters via Aaj English

South Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission said new downloads of DeepSeek’s app were suspended from 6pm on 15 February 2025, after the company admitted it had not fully followed Korean data protection law. The web service stayed available. The commission said downloads would resume once DeepSeek fixed its handling of personal data, and told existing users not to enter personal information.

Why it matters

Korean users lost access to new DeepSeek app installs, and foreign AI app makers learned that Korea’s privacy regulator will pull an app from stores over data handling.

When
15 Feb 2025
ID
WTA-N-2025-0094
Who
Personal Information Protection Commission (South Korea), DeepSeek
Authority
Personal Information Protection Commission (South Korea)
Target
DeepSeek
Action
new downloads suspended
Status
closed · Enforcement ledger

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from The Hacker News and the reporting credited above. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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WTA-N-2025-0094: “South Korea’s privacy regulator suspends new downloads of the DeepSeek app.” wheresthe.ai, 15 Feb 2025. https://wheresthe.ai/d/kr-pipc-deepseek-downloads-suspended-2025-02/ (source: The Hacker News).

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