Microsoft employees are banned from using DeepSeek app, president says 

Microsoft employees are not allowed to use Deepseek because of data security and propaganda -Microsoft Vice chairman and President Brad Smith said in a senate hearing Today.

“At Microsoft we do not allow our employees to use the Deepseek app,” said Smith, referring to Deepseek’s application service (which is available on both desktop and mobile).

Smith said that Microsoft did not put Deepseek in his App Store because of those worries.

Although many organizations and even countries have imposed restrictions on Deepseek, this is the first time that Microsoft has become public about such a ban.

Smith said the limitation comes from the risk that data will be stored in China and that Deepseek’s answers can be influenced by ‘Chinese propaganda’.

Deepseek’s Privacy Policy states It stores user data on Chinese servers. Such data is subject to Chinese law mandates Cooperation with the intelligence services of the country. Deepseek also censes heavily subjects that are sensitive to the Chinese government.

Despite Smith’s critical comments about Deepseek, Microsoft The lock offered R1 model on his Azure Cloud Service shortly after it went viral earlier this year.

But that is a bit different from offering Deepseek’s Chatbot app itself. Because Deepseek is open source, everyone can download the model, save on their own servers and offer it to their customers without sending the data back to China.

However, that does not remove any other risks, such as the model that spreads propaganda or generates uncertain code.

During the hearing of the Senate, Smith said that Microsoft had managed to enter the AI ​​model of Deepseek and to “change” to remove “harmful side effects”. Microsoft did not respond well to exactly what it did to the Deepseek model, with reference to WAN to Smith’s comments.

In his first launch of Deepseek on Azure, Microsoft written That deep chat underwent “rigorous red team and safety evaluations” before it was put on Azure.

Although we cannot help to point out that the Deepseek app is also a direct competitor of Microsoft’s own Copilot Internet Search Chat app, Microsoft does not prohibit all such chat competitors from the Windows App Store.

For example, pertexity is available in the Windows App Store. Although all apps from Microsoft’s Archrival Google (including the Chrome -Browser and the Chatbot Gemini from Google) did not appear in our search on the web store.