Germany asks Apple and Google to pull DeepSeek app

Germany just became the latest country to move against DeepSeek over mounting data privacy concerns. Here’s why this keeps happening.

As you probably guessed, it’s a China thing

When DeepSeek took the world by storm earlier this year, it wasn’t long before it found itself in the crosshairs of governments in the West.

First, because users quickly learned that its models were heavily moderated, skirting answering questions that could cast China and its government in a bad…