Australia says be ‘very careful’ over DeepSeek and privacy
Sydney, Australia
29 january,2025
“I would be very careful about that. These type of issues need to be weighed up carefully.”
Husic said Chinese companies sometimes differed from Western rivals when it came to user privacy and data management.
“The Chinese are very good at developing products that work very well. That market is accustomed to their approaches on data and privacy.
“The minute you export it to markets where consumers have different expectations around privacy and data management, the questions is whether those products will be embraced in the same way.
“I think you have to be careful, I’m just being completely frank and direct on that.”
Australia in 2018 banned Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei from its national 5G network, citing national security concerns.
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