By James Panichi ( February 5, 2025, 06:27 GMT | Insight) -- The banning of DeepSeek products, applications and web services from Australian government devices, coupled with concerns expressed by the country’s top privacy official, are pointing to a growing unease about Chinese technology and, more broadly, generative artificial intelligence. In a statement, the secretary of Australia’s Department of Home Affairs, Stephanie Foster, said that after considering threat and risk analysis, she had concluded that “DeepSeek … poses an unacceptable level of security risk to the Australian government.”The banning of DeepSeek products, applications and web services from Australian government devices, coupled with concerns expressed by the country’s top privacy official, are pointing to a growing unease about Chinese technology and, more broadly, generative artificial intelligence....
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