The ban includes Lemon8, a social media app owned by Tiktok’s parent company bytedance.
On January 31, Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, issued a ban on the Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) app and the other five other social media apps owned by the government issued by the government.
State employees and contractors are not allowed to download or use apps prohibited on both state -owned and individual devices used for their work, according to the Governor’s statement.
Prohibition is the Deepseek and China’s social media app Lemon8, Xingyin Information, and the Chinese stock trading app MOOMOO Includes Ers and Webull Masu. The declaration order was identified as “security risk” to Texas.
Abbott said that the ban was banned by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Beijing, which was called “malicious spy activity”, so the state institution that manages important infrastructure, intellectual property, and personal information in the state. He said that it was aimed at protecting employees.
“Texas does not allow the CCP to invade the state important infrastructure through data harvest AI and social media apps,” said the governor. “Texas will protect and protect our nation from hostile foreign actors.”
The state has already banned the use of Tiktok on the device issued by the government in December 2022 due to concern that the Chinese administration can access delicate data through apps. CCP authorities ask them.
In the past two months, Abbot ordered the state of the state from the effects of CCPs, ordering the arrest of criminals executing CCP’s influence and demanding that the state institution would “sell” from China. We have issued four orders for the purpose.
Deepseek caused data privacy concerns after the free open source AI model was launched earlier this month. This app is controlled by Hangzhou Deepseek Artificial Intelligence and Beijing DeepSeek artificial intelligence, according to the privacy policy web page.
The White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told the reporters on January 28 that the government was investigating the potential impact of the DeepSeek AI app on the national security.
Representative John Mulenal (R-Mich) and Raja Krishna Mori (D-ILL), chairman of the CCP’s Selection Committee, on January 29, a letter to the National Security Advisor Mike Waltz. I sent it. A national security benefit for placing export management on other semiconductor chips that can be used for AI development of NVIDIA and Deepseek.
Representatives show that DeepSeek’s H800 chips outside the US export management, indicating the need to frequently update export controls to prevent CCP from exploiting “regulation gaps and omissions”. He said he was using it. They also asked the government to limit the use of Chinese training AI systems in important US infrastructure.
The US Navy Spokesman said to the Epoch Times on January 30 that the service members did not use the open source AI program for official tasks, including deep shecchatbots.
The Italian Data Protection Bureau has blocked access to DeepSeek, for concerns regarding user data processing. Regulatory authorities said Deepseek’s answer to surveys on the data collection of apps was inadequate.
DeepSeek’s Privacy Policy Web Page states that data collected from the app will be stored in a safe server in the People’s Republic of China. Also, if you believe that such disclosure is necessary to comply with the application method, legal procedure, or government’s demands, as consistent with the internationally recognized criteria. Information states that the information may be disclosed to a third party.
The DeepSeek AI app was the most downloaded free app last week on the US Apple App Store, and on January 27, the NVIDIA stock price dropped by about 17 %, and it was developed in some AI models. After that, the cost of rivals using NVIDIA’s less wise H800 chips.
Concerns about censorship are also raised. DeepSeek has a heavy prejudice that is advantageous to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and provides delicate answers to delicate topics, such as human rights violations reminiscent of CCP’s national management media reports.
