DeepSeek app faces ban in Germany for illegal transfer of user data

Re:DeepSeek app faces ban in Germany for illegal transfer of... by dotps1 on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @02:37PM (#44436847)

They transfer all your data passively by using 45 year old encryption with known IVs so it’s easy for the CCP firewall to siphon it all.

They just have to pretend they didn’t know what they did and it’s legal.

The only way to not leak your data is to run it locally.

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Re:DeepSeek app faces ban in Germany for illegal transfer of... by singularity2001 on Tuesday July 01, 2025 @05:42PM (#44438258)

Thanks leaking the two discussions I had is a completely different ballpark then uploading all my contact list which other Chinese apps did before

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