Microsoft employees are banned from using DeepSeek app, president says 

Microsoft Vice Chairman and President Brad Smith said in a Senate hearing today that Microsoft employees are not allowed to use Deepseek due to data security and propaganda concerns.

“In Microsoft, we do not allow our employees to use Deepseek”, referring to the Deepseek app (available on both desktop and mobile), “said Smith.

Smith said that Microsoft did not put Deepseek in the application store on those concerns as well.

Although many organizations and even countries have imposed restrictions on Deepseek, this is the first time that Microsoft has been published about this ban.

Smith said that the restriction stems from the risk of storing data in China and that Dibsic’s answers may be affected by “Chinese propaganda.”

Deepseek privacy policy stipulates storing user data on Chinese servers. Such data is subject to Chinese law, which imposes cooperation with the country’s intelligence agencies. Dibsic is also very sensitive monitoring topics by the Chinese government.

Despite Smith’s critical comments about Deepseek, the Deepseek Microsoft Microsoft model has provided the Deepseek model on the Azure Cloud service shortly after its transfer earlier this year.

But this is a little different from the introduction of the Deepseek’s chatbot itself. Since the open source Deepseek, anyone can download the form and store it on his own servers and provide it to his customers without sending data to China.

However, this does not remove other risks such as the model that spreads propaganda or generates an unsafe symbol.

During the Senate session, Smith said that Microsoft was able to go to the AI ​​Deepseek model and “change it” to remove the “harmful side effects”. Microsoft did not explain exactly what it did for the Deepseek model, with a sign of Techcrunch to Smith’s notes.

At its preeek on Azure, Microsoft wrote that Deepseek had undergone “red and strict collective assessments” before putting it on Azure.

Although we cannot help indicate that Deepseek is also a direct competitor to the ISSOFT chat application, Microsoft does not prohibit all chatting competitors from its Windows App Store.

Confusion is available in the Windows App Store, for example. Although any Microsoft Microsoft applications (including Chrome and Chatbot Gemini from Google) did not appear in our Webstore search.