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Germany urges Apple and Google to remove DeepSeek from app stores over EU privacy concerns
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this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2025
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I run deepseek locally so obviously I appreciate that they made that decision, but let's not pretend that something can't be given away for free with bad intentions. People running LLMs locally are a drop in the bucket compared to people just downloading an app.
Bad intentions? ~~The Chinese government~~ Deepseek showed that the OpenAI emperor had no clothes.
I have no idea what point you're trying to make. That means they have good intentions with the data they're collecting about the users of their mobile apps?
It's a reference to a fairy tale called Emperor's new clothes.