Microsoft employees cannot use Deepseek due to data security and propaganda conerns, Microsoft’s vice president and President Brad Smith said today at a Senate audience.
“In Microsoft we do not allow our employees to use the Depseek application,” Smith said, referring to the Deepsek Application Service (which is available both desktop and mobile devices).
Smith said Microsoft has not put Deepseek in its application store about those concerns.
Allitohoug many organizations and even countries have imposed restrictions on Deepseek, this is the first time Microsoft will be made public on such a prohibition.
Smith said that the risk restriction voice that the data will be stored in China and that Depseek’s responses could be influenced by the “Chinese propaganda.”
The Deepseek privacy policy establishes that it stores user data on Chinese servers. These data are subject to Chinese law, which requires cooperation with the country’s intelligence agencies. Deepseek also largely 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.
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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 sacrifice it to its customers without the return data to China.
That, however, does not eliminate another risk such as the model that spreads propaganda or the generation of insecure code.
Duration The Senate Audience, Smith said that Microsoft had managed to enter the 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 On Azure launch, Microsoft wrote that Deepseek underwent “rigorous evaluations of red and security equipment” before it was fine 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
