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US lawmakers want DeepSeek banned from government devices
U.S. Representatives Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Darin LaHood (R-IL) plan to introduce the “No DeepSeek on Government Devices Act.” A security expert revealed hidden code that sends data to a state-owned Chinese company.
The alarm follows an independent analysis from Feroot Security claiming that DeepSeek’s code sends user data directly to the Chinese government-owned China Mobile. “We see direct links to servers and companies in China that are under control of the Chinese government,” Feroot analyst Ivan Tsarynny said in an interview with ABC News. “Our personal information is being sent to China, there is no denial, and the DeepSeek tool is collecting everything that American users connect to it,” Tsarynny told the Wall Street Journal.
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