It is reported that Federal ministers Ed Husic (Industry Minister) and Clare O’Neil (Housing Minister) have expressed raised privacy concerns over Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek, with quoted comments including: (1) “What our national security agencies will be doing at the moment is having a look at the settings of the app and understanding more about how it works before it issues some formal guidance to Australians” (O’Neil); and (2) “There are a lot of questions that will need to be answered in time on quality, consumer preferences, data and privacy management” (Husic).
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