Microsoft employees are prohibited from using the Depseek application, says the president

Microsoft employees cannot use Deepseek due to data security and propaganda, said Microsoft’s vice president and President Brad Smith in a Senate audience today.

“In Microsoft we do not allow our employees to use the Depseek application,” Smith said, referring to the Deepseek application service (which is available both desktop and mobile devices).

Smith said Microsoft has not put Deepseek in its application store about those concerns.

Although Many organizations and even countries have imposed Deepseek restrictionsThis is the first time that Microsoft becomes public about such prohibition.

Smith said that the restriction comes from the risk that the data will be stored in China and that Depseek’s responses could be influenced by the “Chinese propaganda.”

Deepseek Privacy Policy states Store user data on Chinese servers. Such data are subject to Chinese law, which Mandates Cooperation with the country’s intelligence agencies. Deepseek too strongly censors Issues considered sensitive by the Chinese government.

Despite Smith’s critical comments about Depseek, Microsoft Offered Deepseek’s R1 model in its Azure cloud service shortly after it went viral earlier this year.

But that is a bit different from offering the Depseek chatbot application. Since Depseek is open source, anyone can download the model, store it on their own servers and offer it to its customers without returning the data to China.

However, that does not eliminate other risks, such as the model that spreads propaganda or the generation of insecure code.

During the Senate audience, Smith said that Microsoft had managed to enter Depseek’s model and “change it” to eliminate “harmful side effects.” Microsoft did not explain exactly what he did to Depseek’s model, referring Techcrunch to Smith’s comments.

In its initial Deepseek launch in Azure, Microsoft wrote That deep Seek underwent “rigorous evaluations of red and security equipment” before it was put in Azure.

While we cannot avoid pointing out that the Depseek application is also a direct competitor of Microsoft’s own co -ilot internet search chat application, Microsoft does not prohibit all those chat competitors from your Windows App Store.

Perplexity is available in Windows App Store, for example. Although any application of the Microsoft Google arch