Privacy authority opens probe into DeepSeek

(ANSA) - ROME, JAN 31 - Italy's privacy authority has said it has opened a probe into DeepSeek and stopped the new Chinese-made AI app, which has reached the top of the downloads list, from processing Italian users' data.
    On Wednesday the app disappeared from Google and Apple's digital stores in Italy after the authority requested information about its use of personal data.
    The watchdog said there was a "potentially high risk for millions of people's data in Italy" On Thursday the authority said that the responses from the company that provide the app were inadequate and so it had decided to take action. (ANSA).