DeepSeek, a Chinese-developed AI chatbot, has amassed over 2 million downloads and is raising concerns due to its data storage practices. The app collects vast amounts of user data, including IP addresses, keystroke patterns, and device information, and stores it on servers in China, raising national security risks. Experts warn that this data could be subject to Chinese government access under cybersecurity laws, mirroring the concerns that led to the TikTok ban.
this week, is storing its fast-growing troves of US user data in China – posing many of the same national security risks that led Congress to crack down on TikTok.
“What sets this context apart is that DeepSeek is a Chinese company based in China,” said Angela Zhang, a law professor at the University of Southern California focused on Chinese tech regulations. The Chinese chatbot has also displayed signs of censorship and bias – including refusing to answer prompts about China’s leader Xi Jinping, the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, whether Taiwan is a country and if China has committed human rights abuses against Uighurs in Xinjiang.
Committee chairman Rep. John Moolenaar said Congress should “work to swiftly place stronger export controls on technologies critical to DeepSeek’s AI infrastructure.” “’Pro America’ technologists openly supporting a Chinese model that was trained off of leading US frontier models, with chips that likely violate export controls, and – according to their own terms of service – take US customer data back to China,”
“Users should consider whether their interactions or uploaded data might inadvertently contribute to machine learning processes, potentially leading to data misuse or the development of tools that could be exploited maliciously,” Warmenhoven added.
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