The Italian regulator, known as the Garante, said on Tuesday it wanted to know what personal data is collected, from which sources, for what purposes, on what legal basis and whether it is stored in China. It gave DeepSeek and its affiliated companies 20 days to respond.
You’ll find most people don’t give a shit about privacy or security. They are completely ignorant to the type of psychological profiling, manipulation, and warfare that surveillance capitalism enables.
To the average chucklefuck, the type of psychological warfare these platforms enable sounds like some magical fantastical SciFi conspiracy theory. They just think “I like products, and this means I will be advertised more relevant products”. They simply can’t comprehend how their data could be used to scam their mum through social engineering, deny them insurance, charge them individually customised discriminatory pricing, subvert democracy, or coerce them into voting against their own best interests… All of that is SciFi. Not reality.