Two members of the US Congress provide for introduce Bipartite legislation to prohibit Catseek ai from China government devices. The bill announced after a security expert said Deepseek poses not only A threat to us the AI stocks; It is also a risk of national security. The chatbot was recently the most downloaded application in the United States.
American representatives Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Darin Lahood (R-I-IL), the most high-end member of each part of the selective committee of the House of Information, plan to introduce the “Act on Apparatus Apparatus government ”. If all of this seems familiar, the movement echoes Congress’ Tiktok blocking of government devices in 2022. It was the salvo of opening in a saga that resulted in The United States ban The application is watching now.
The alarm follows an independent analysis of Feroot Security saying that the Deepseek code sends user data directly to China Mobile, owned by the Chinese government. “We see direct links with servers and companies in China who are under the control of the Chinese government,” said Ferot Ivan Tsarynny analyst said in an interview ABC News. “This is something that we have never seen before.”
“Our personal information is sent to China, there is no denial and the Deepseek tool collects everything that American users connect,” said Tsaryny said THE Wall Street Journal. ABC reported on Wednesday that several cybersecurity experts had verified Feroot’s conclusions.
THE US Navy And Nasa have already prohibited the depth of their employees’ devices. Texas is the only state to have blocked The application of government devices. Three other countries have already beaten the United States to prohibit the application: Italy, South Korea and Australia.
Lahood warned against the dangers of the application. “The national security threat that Deepseek – a company affiliated with the CCP – poses in the United States is alarming,” the representative wrote in a press release. “The Deepseek AI generator program acquires data from American users and stores information for use unidentified by the CCP. In no case can we allow a PCC company to obtain data sensitive to government or personal data. »»
“We have to go to the bottom of the malignant activities of Deepseek,” wrote Gottheimer. “We simply cannot risk that the CCP has infiltrated the devices of our government representatives and compromising our national security.”
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