DeepSeek accused of powering China’s military and mining US user data – Computerworld

This corporate embrace contrasts sharply with government responses. The US Congress, Navy, Pentagon, NASA, and Texas have banned DeepSeek usage, while Italy blocked DeepSeek in a country-wide prohibition.

“The widespread availability of large language models via public cloud marketplaces, often with ambiguous provenance, unclear jurisdictional obligations, and hidden lineage, creates significant risk exposure for US enterprises,” Gogia warned. He noted that organizations are “effectively ingesting black-box models whose training data, hosting infrastructure, and developer affiliations may be misaligned with their compliance obligations.”

For enterprise customers, the revelations demand immediate policy changes. Gogia recommends organizations “evolve from vendor trust to systemic verification” through AI chain-of-custody audits and strict legal clauses governing data retention and jurisdictional obligations.