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DeepSeek collects keystroke data and more, storing it in Chinese servers (mashable.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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Is anyone actually surprised by this?

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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

i mean....yes? that is generally how search platforms work.

I wouldn't recommend anybody use any google based stuff directly (or at all, if possible) but if you do, then sending the search query is generally what would happen.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's the point. There is nothing strange or shady about the fact that things you type into DeepSeek.com are sent to DeepSeek.com. Obviously keystrokes you submit to a website are submitted to the website.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Oh yeah, the whole article could be reductively summed up as

    "DeepSeek and all the other LLM services are almost as bad as each other, but we think deepseek is worse....because the Chinese government are known for doing bad things".

    The title is factual, if a little clickbaity.

    Obviously keystrokes you submit to a website are submitted to the website.

    This though, it's not technically accurate, a lot of forms and input are done client side and then the resulting information is parceled up and sent to the server.

    The actual keystroke data isn't normally sent.

    Though this article doesn't go in to what kind of keystroke data is sent, if it was something more than just which keys in which order then that's perhaps an indicator that it's actively being collected for a reason, rather than just incidentally.

    If you want to get really paranoid about such things it's known that you can you can do interesting things with actual keystroke data.

    Also, afaict none of the the non-chinese services have specified that they don't do this.

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