On Tuesday, Australia banned the app from its government devices, much like a number of South Korean government ministries, while Italy issued a ban last month.
Lawmakers grew concerned that the Chinese government could access user data and banned the app from government devices and, subsequently, from the country as a whole.
Bipartisan legislation has been introduced in the House to ban DeepSeek, the Chinese AI chatbot app, from government-owned devices.
Last year, Congress passed legislation to ban TikTok in the U.S. unless a U.S. buyer could be found to force a separation from the Chinese owner ByteDance.
“Under no circumstances can we allow a [Chinese Communist Party] company to obtain sensitive government or personal data,” LaHood told The Journal.
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