After a boost in popularity, it seems DeepSeek might start being banned from app stores across the world due to privacy concerns.

The DeepSeek chatbot, known as R1, responds to user queries just like its U.S.-based counterparts. Early testing released by DeepSeek suggests that its quality rivals that of other AI products, while the company says it costs less and uses far fewer specialized chips than do its competitors.

Italian’s privacy regulator questioned whether the app complied with GDPR, a tough privacy law that applies across 30 different countries … DeepSeek is an AI chatbot developed in China, and which posted benchmarks indicating that its performance was comparable to the world’s best existing models.