Australia has banned DeepSeek from all government devices over concerns that the Chinese artificial intelligence startup poses security risks, the government said on Tuesday.

Australia issued a statement that requires all government entities to prevent the access, use or installation of DeepSeek products, applications and web services on Australian government systems and mobile devices.

As American big tech companies lashed for their slow efforts to prevent harms Australia’s Department of Home Affairs has banned the use of DeepSeek on federal government devices.… A policy issued on February 4th warns that the Chinese chat app conducts “extensive collection of data and exposure of that data to extrajudicial directions from a foreign government that conflict with Australian law.