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theregister.co.ukAustralia’s Department of Home Affairs has banned the use of DeepSeek on federal government devices.
A policy issued on February 4th warns that the Chinese chat app conducts “extensive collection of data and exposure of that data to extrajudicial directions from a foreign government that conflict with Australian law.”
Most government entities have therefore been told to “Identify and remove all existing instances of DeepSeek products, applications and web services on all Australian Government systems and mobile devices” and prevent access to the company’s apps, web services, and other products.
Only agencies engaged in national security or regulatory work are allowed to access DeepSeek’s products, and even then they need special permission to do so.
The decision seems designed to avoid known issues with DeepSeek that include its collection of users’ keystrokes and shabby infosec practices that exposed chat histories and other data. And of course let ...
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