DeepSeek AI app for iPhone and Android has been caught sending unencrypted data to servers in China. You'd best avoid the mobile apps.

A little over two weeks ago, a largely unknown China-based company named DeepSeek stunned the AI world with the release of an open source AI chatbot that had simulated reasoning capabilities that were largely on par with those from market leader OpenAI.

Multiple security flaws have been found in the DeepSeek iOS app, which is still one of the most popular downloads in the App Store after topping the charts when it first launched. The latest findings are far worse than the previous security failure which exposed chat history and other sensitive information in a database requiring no authentication

Lawmakers are now pushing to immediately ban the Chinese chatbot DeepSeek on government devices, citing national security concerns that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) may have built a backdoor into DeepSeek to access Americans' sensitive private data. If passed, DeepSeek could be banned within 60 days.

Lawmakers in the House are proposing to ban the Chinese artificial intelligence app DeepSeek from U.S. government devices

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