‘Hundreds’ of companies are blocking DeepSeek over China data risks

DeepSeek took the U.S. by storm this week: The Chinese language firm’s chatbot rose to the highest of the Apple and Play shops, whereas main U.S. cloud suppliers like Microsoft started providing it on their platforms.

However “tons of” of firms — particularly ones with ties to authorities — have blocked the service, Bloomberg reported primarily based on interviews with executives from cybersecurity companies Armis and Netskope.

“The largest concern is the AI mannequin’s potential knowledge leakage to the Chinese language authorities,” Armis’ CTO Nadir Izrael stated. 

Bloomberg Regulation individually reported {that a} San Francisco regulation agency, Fox Rothschild, has blocked DeepSeek as nicely.

In response to DeepSeek’s privateness coverage, the corporate shops all person knowledge in China, the place native legal guidelines mandate firms share knowledge with intelligence businesses upon request.

The Pentagon has simply began blocking DeepSeek, whereas the Navy banned it final week.