The US Department of Homeland Security has banned DeepSeek from all federal civil agencies and ordered the immediate removal of its products, including those integrated into third-party software. This decision is based on the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act of 2018 and cites risks of personal data collection and potential malware presence. The order, dated July 24 and published in the Federal Register under number 2026-21447, provides no exemption for self-hosting. China responded by denouncing an “excessive generalization of national security” and opening its own investigation for data leakage to the United States.
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