DeepSeek trust news
Reporting about trust in DeepSeek: safety, privacy, lawsuits, regulation and transparency. Each story links to the original source. The news is here for context; it does not change the score, which comes only from verified voters.
October 2026
· TechCrunch
US orders federal agencies to remove DeepSeek from their systemsThe US directed federal civilian agencies to stop buying DeepSeek products and remove them from government IT systems, citing concerns over how DeepSeek handles user data.
September 2026
· The Next Web
China reportedly probes DeepSeek and Moonshot over user dataAccording to The Information, China's Cyberspace Administration opened an inquiry into DeepSeek and Moonshot over Chinese user data that may have reached Anthropic; no penalties are decided.
· The Register
US agencies say Chinese AI firms including DeepSeek distill American modelsThe NSA, FBI and CISA say DeepSeek and other Chinese AI firms extract capabilities from US frontier models through large-scale distillation that breaches providers' terms.
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