Bipartisan Lawmakers Lead State-Level Push to Ban DeepSeek Over Security Concerns

U.S. Reps. Darin LaHood (R-Ill.) and Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.) sent a letter to more than 40 state governors on March 3, urging them to ban DeepSeek from government-issued devices due to concerns that the Chinese chatbot collects sensitive data. In a letter to 47 governors and the mayor of Washington, D.C., the lawmakers warned that DeepSeek is designed to harvest user information and cited risks to data privacy, cybersecurity, and access to government records. The lawmakers said recent research shows that DeepSeek’s code has direct ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and can share user data with China Mobile....