US lawmakers want to ban DeepSeek app from government devices

American legislators are set to introduce a bipartisan bill that would ban DeepSeek’s chatbot application from government-owned devices amid growing security concerns that the app could transmit user data to the Chinese government, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The legislation mirrors the strategy Congress employed to prohibit Chinese-owned TikTok from government devices — a move that marked the beginning of efforts to curtail TikTok’s operations in the US.

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