Roskomnadzor Won't Block DeepSeek Despite Google Chat Leaks
Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek accidentally broadcast user conversations directly to Google search, yet censor Roskomnadzor sees absolutely no reason to intervene.
AI safety researcher David Konitzny from Peec AI stumbled upon the vulnerability during routine testing of DeepSeek. The chatbot's built-in sharing option generates a permanent web link for user conversations, but the platform neglected to configure standard anti-indexing directives for search engines.
Web crawlers from Google automatically cataloged these shared pages into public search indexes. Specific search queries targeting the domain revealed a trove of hidden conversation URLs, exposing confidential user prompts, proprietary code snippets, and personal queries to anyone looking close enough.
Despite the widespread exposure of user chat histories, Russian telecom regulator Roskomnadzor officially refused to ban or restrict the Chinese platform. The agency declared that blocking measures require formal legal orders from designated enforcement authorities, which have not been submitted.
State censorship operates with convenient oversight whenever strategic foreign software faces privacy scandals, proving that digital enforcement relies purely on political expediency.
Source: LinkedIn
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