Microsoft employees are not allowed to use Deepseek due to data security concerns and propaganda, Microsoft Vice President and President Brad Smith in a Senate said hearing today.
“At Microsoft we do not allow our employees to use the Deepseek app,” said Smith, referring to Deepseeeek’s Applications Service (which is available both on the desktop and mobile.)
Smith said Microsoft has not put Deepseek in its app store for these concerns.
Although many organizations and even countries have imposed Deepseek restrictions, this is the first time Microsoft has been publicly publicly banned.
Smith said the restriction comes from the risk that the data would be stored in China and that Deepseek’s answers could be affected by “Chinese propaganda”.
Deepseek Privacy Policy states Saves user data on Chinese servers. This data is subject to Chinese law, which command Cooperation with the country’s intelligence services. Deepseek also censorship issues are considered sensitive by the Chinese government.
Despite Smith’s critical comments about Deepseek, Microsoft offered Deepseek’s The R1 model in the service of Azure Cloud shortly after viral earlier this year.
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But this is a little different from the offer of Deepseek’s Chatbot app. Since Deepseek is an open source, anyone can download the model, store it to their own servers and offer it to their customers without sending the data back to China.
This, however, does not abolish other risks such as the model that spreads propaganda or the creation of uninsured code.
During the Senate hearing, Smith said Microsoft had managed to enter Deepseek’s AI model and “change” it to remove “harmful side effects”. Microsoft did not process exactly what she did in the Deepseek model, citing TechCrunch in Smith’s observations.
In the initial launch of Deepseek in Azure, Microsoft I wrote This Deepseek has undergone “strict red team and security ratings” before it was put on Azure.
Although we cannot help to point out that the DeepseEeeek application is also a direct competitor to its own Microsoft Internet search application, Microsoft does not prohibit all these competitors from the Windows App Store.
For example, an embarrassment is available in the Windows App Store. Although the applications from Microsoft’s Archrival Google (including the Chrome browser and Google Chatbot Gemini) did not appear in search of our webstore.
