Data Protection Day is today, Jan. 28, 2025, and it's a world event intended to help people remember to follow the best practices for data privacy and security. It's only a coincidence that DeepSeek, a new and free AI chatbot with an extremely questionably privacy policy, vaulted to the top charts of the App Store and Google Play Store shortly before Data Protection Day began.
Chances are, you've heard the name DeepSeek over the last day or two. Within the tech industry and stock market, the attention around DeepSeek AI has been more about the open-source nature of its models and the cost required to train them rather than their effectiveness compared to chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini. "Despite its strong performance, it also maintains economical training costs," DeepSeek claims in a white paper.
