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   More US government departments ban controversial AI model DeepSeek   
      
   Date:   
   Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:39:17 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   Staffers at the US Department of Commence can no longer use Chinese AI model   
   DeepSeek.   
      
   FULL STORY   
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    - US Department of Commerce staff have reportedly been banned from using   
   DeepSeek on government devices   
    - This follows similar bans from other US government agencies and departments   
    - A bipartisan bill has been introduced into Congress to ban the model from   
   all US government devices   
      
   Staff at the US Department of Commerce have been banned from using the    
   Chinese AI model on government-issued devices.    
      
   According to Reuters , employees are forbidden from downloading, viewing,   
   accessing applications, desktop apps, or websites related to DeepSeek.    
      
   "To help keep Department of Commerce information systems safe, access to the   
   new Chinese based AI DeepSeek is broadly prohibited on all GFE," said a mass   
   email to employees regarding their government-furnished equipment.   
      
   Data privacy concerns   
      
   The chatbot has also been banned by the US Navy, which has asked staff to   
   avoid using it in any capacity due to  potential security and ethical    
   concerns associated with the models origin and usage .    
      
   Large Language Models like DeepSeek collect huge amounts of personal   
   information, and scrape the web to collect vast amounts of data in training   
   the model, which has led states banning the tool, such as Italys data   
   protection authority blocking the model over privacy concerns, finding the   
   information given to regulators totally insufficient.    
      
   In February 2025, a bipartisan bill was introduced into the US Congress    
   aiming to protect Americans from DeepSeek by banning the AI on all government   
   devices for federal employees.    
      
   The Chinese Communist Party has made it abundantly clear that it will exploit   
   any tool at its disposal to undermine our national security, spew harmful   
   disinformation, and collect data on Americans,  said Congressman Josh   
   Gottheimer.    
      
   Now, we have deeply disturbing evidence that they are using DeepSeek to steal   
   the sensitive data of U.S. citizens. This is a five alarm national security   
   fire. We must get to the bottom of DeepSeeks malign activities. We simply    
   cant risk the CCP infiltrating the devices of our government officials and   
   jeopardizing our national security."   
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/more-us-government-departments-ban-cont   
   roversial-ai-model-deepseek   
      
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