Australia prohibits the use of the Chinese program of the Deepseek in government devices

“After analyzing threats and risks, we have determined that the use of Deepseek web applications, applications and services propose an unacceptable level of security risks for the Australian government,” said the Secretary of the Department of Internal Affairs, Stephanie Foster

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As of February 4, 2025, Depseek products must be “eliminated” of all mobile systems and mobile devices of Australia, the department declared in an order.

Deepseek broke into the emerging market for artificial intelligence (AI) in January with a competitive conversational program, the R1, similar to that offered by US platforms, but to a fraction of the cost.

But Deepseek, based in the Eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou -known as the “Chinese Valley Silicon” -also began to worry authorities around the world, in addition to unleashing panic on Wall Street.

“This is an action that the government has taken on the recommendation of security agencies. It is not at all a symbolic measure, ”said government envoy for cybersecurity, Andrew Charlton.

“We do not want to expose government systems to these applications,” he added.

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The risks include that the information loaded “does not stay private”, and that applications such as Deepseek “can expose you to malicious programs,” Chalton warned of National Television ABC.

Taiwan prohibited workers from the public sector and critical infrastructure to use the conversational robot of the Chinese company, claiming that it is a danger to national security.

Concern in the world

Other countries such as South Korea, Ireland, France and Italy expressed concern in data protection and what information is used to train the AI ​​system.

The Italian Personal Data Protection (GPDP) authority, for example, sent several questions to the Chinese company about the use of personal data for its conversational robot. He also investigated whether the data “are stored on servers located in China.”

Since Deepseek’s emergence in the IA world scenario, the Australian Minister of Industry and Science, Ed Husic, urged users to be “very careful.”

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“There are many questions to answer quality, consumer preferences, data management and privacy,” Husic told ABC.

“The Chinese are very good developing products that work very well” and the market of that Asian country “is accustomed to their relationship with data and privacy,” he said.

But “as soon as you export your products to markets where consumers have different expectations in privacy and data management, the question is whether these products will be adopted in the same way,” he added.

Technological and commercial disputes between China and Australia date back to years, when both countries lived their worst relationship crisis in decades.

In 2018, Australia excluded the Chinese giant from Huawei telecommunications from its 5G national network for national security reasons.

Beijing was outraged by Canberra’s decision to demand investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 Pandemia, emerged in China.

The commercial war between Canberra and Beijing, of billions of dollars, ended up cooling at the end of last year, when China raised its last barrier, the prohibition of importing lobsters of Australian living rock.