DeepSeek barred from government agency IT systems
The Department of Homeland Security has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products from their IT systems. The directive applies across agency networks and covers all products connected to the Chinese AI company.
Why this matters: Federal agencies run systems that touch benefits, immigration records, law enforcement data, and national security functions. Barring a foreign AI tool from those systems is a straightforward security call. The harder question this decision points to is one most agencies have not fully answered yet: what AI is already running inside government systems, who approved it, and what data it can reach. DeepSeek is the named target today, but the underlying problem is much broader.
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