Dispute Resolution
January 2025
With Chinese AI platform DeepSeek rapidly becoming the most downloaded free app in the UK and the US, Director Dominic Holden comments on the potential cybersecurity and data protection concerns, in The Lawyer.
Dominic’s comments were published in The Lawyer, 28 January 2025, and can be found here.
“DeepSeek’s privacy policy makes clear that they will collect your personal data, use it for a broad range of purposes and store it in China. This data is very valuable especially when provided at scale by thousands of users. The same concerns which gave rise to the proposed TikTok ban seem to apply here.
“With China’s national security laws obliging Chinese firms to share data with government agencies, users cannot know what will ultimately become of their data or how it might be used. Great care should be taken by users in deciding what to share with the platform.”
