Roskomnadzor did not restrict user access to DeepSeek following…

Roskomnadzor did not restrict user access to DeepSeek following reports of leaks involving fragments of users' chat logs from Google.

Consensus

• Roskomnadzor did not impose restrictions on access to DeepSeek in Russia.
• Access to information can only be restricted based on decisions from authorized bodies.
• No such decisions regarding DeepSeek had been received by Roskomnadzor.
• User dialogues with DeepSeek became publicly accessible through search engines like Google.
• The exposed data included user questions, AI responses, and document names, but not the documents themselves.

Points of divergence

• On July 21, TASS reported that Russian-language user conversations with DeepSeek were accessible via a special search query. — vedomosti
• The Next Web reported on July 20 that four research teams identified four different ways to hack AI models within ten days, highlighting issues related to access to personal data and external services. — vedomosti
• Google indexed public links created by users for sharing chat content with third parties. — vesti
• The exposed dialogues were only those where users had created a public link, and the exact mechanism of how they appeared in search results remains unknown. — kommersant

Coverage (4 sources)

• RKN did not restrict access to DeepSeek following data leak reports — Ведомости
• Roskomnadzor Did Not Impose Restrictions on Access to DeepSeek — Вести
• Roskomnadzor did not restrict access to DeepSeek after leak of chat logs — Коммерсантъ
• Roskomnadzor did not restrict access to DeepSeek amid reports of user conversation leaks — Московский кэш

Key entities

• Roskomnadzor
• DeepSeek
• TASS
• Roskomnadzor
• Russia
• Google