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Australia bans DeepSeek on government devices over security risk (www.bbc.com)

submitted 18 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Australia has banned DeepSeek from all government devices and systems over what it says is the security risk the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) startup poses.

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Growing - and familiar - concerns

Western countries have a track record of being suspicious of Chinese tech - notably telecoms firm Huawei and the social media platform, TikTok - both of which have been restricted on national security grounds.

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An Australian science minister previously said in January that countries needed to be "very careful" about DeepSeek, citing "data and privacy" concerns.

The chatbot was removed from app stores after its privacy policy was questioned in Italy. The Italian goverment previously temporarily blocked ChatGPT over privacy concerns in March 2023.

Regulators in South Korea, Ireland and France have all begun investigations into how DeepSeek handles user data, which it stores in servers in China.

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Generally, AI tools will analyse the prompts sent to them to improve their product.

This is true of apps such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini as much as it is DeepSeek.

All of them gather and keep information, including email addresses and dates of birth.

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

western malware isn't overseen by tyrannical western governments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Yes, it is.

The USA is a tyrannical regime. Their congress is about as meaningful as North Korea's at this point. They couldn't even impeach the corrupt criminal.

In fact, on paper, bloody NK already had better seperation of powers than the USA before this election, but obviously it means little because they're both tyrannical regimes in reality.

As for their malware, NSA TAO have a reputation to uphold. Private corporations aren't immune, we've known about PRISM for over a decade, for a famous example.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 hours ago

With USA's secret subpoenas we literally can't know that

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

And just look at what is happening in the US right now, this statement being arguably true today means nothing about how things will be tomorrow. You can't put the genie back in the bottle here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

The head of western governments just put off invading Canada for 30 days with 6 hours to spare. All of the big malware companies are loyal to the empire and its military.