DeepSeek's AI Storing User Data on Chinese Servers

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/deepseek-china-ai/2025/01/28/id/1196804/

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI research lab that rattled U.S. markets Monday through claims that its latest model uses less advanced computer chips while still performing comparatively with OpenAI, likely sends more data to China than TikTok, according to a new report.

"It shouldn't take a panic over Chinese AI to remind people that most companies in the business set the terms for how they use your private data," according to John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab, reports Wired on Tuesday. "When you use their services, you're doing work for them, not the other way around."

Wired reports that its review of the DeepSeek website's underlying activity shows the company is sending data to Chinese tech giant Baidu, likely for web analytics, and to Voices, a Chinese internet infrastructure company.

DeepSeek has some AI models, that can be downloaded and used locally on a laptop, but most people are expected to use iOS or Android apps, or a web chat interface to use its services.

But some users are reporting that DeepSeek censors content critical of China or its policies. Further, the AI platform collects information including all of a user's chat messages and sends it back to China, where it is stored "in secure servers located in the People's Republic of China," according to DeepSeek's English-language privacy policies.

The privacy policies outline the information it collects, including what's shared with DeepSeek, what it automatically collects, and information gathered from other sources.

"We may collect your text or audio input, prompt, uploaded files, feedback, chat history, or other content that you provide to our model and Services," the privacy policy states.

DeepSeek's settings allow users to delete their chat history, but that can be a little tricky to find, notes Wired.

Meanwhile, other generative AI platforms also collect information. For example, OpenAI's ChatGPT has faced criticism for collecting data, with the company increasing ways the information can be deleted.

Privacy advocates, however, warn that users should never disclose personal or sensitive information to any AI chatbot.

"I would not input personal or private data in any such an AI assistant," Lukasz Olejnik, an independent researcher and consultant affiliated with King's College London Institute for AI commented.

However, Olejnik said that if models such as DeepSeek's are downloaded locally and run on a computer, users can interact with them privately without their data being collected.

But Bart Willemsen, a VP analyst focusing on international privacy at Gartner said the operations of generative AI models aren't generally understood by most users.

DeepSeek is mostly free, but Willemsen said that users pay with "data, knowledge, content, information."

The company also says it collects information about users' devices, IP addresses, and information like crash reports, and also records keystroke patterns or rhythms.

DeepSeek also reserves the right to collect other data, such as through Google or Apple sign-ons, or from advertisers, which share information with the company.

This includes mobile identifiers for advertising, email addresses, and phone numbers, and cookie identifiers, "which we use to help match you and your actions outside of the service," the site says.

Meanwhile, companies based in China are required to obey cybersecurity and privacy laws, including one that says organizations and citizens must "cooperate with national intelligence efforts."

>>22452613

Not when it's for patriotic reasons, shit for brains.

>>22452678

It's not being a slave when fighting for freedom.

Get outta here Antifa/BLM…post your insurgency bullshit on your masters door step.

>>22452692

That's the actual truth of it too!

Trump Fires 3 Democrats on Privacy Oversight Board

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/trump-democrats-privacy-oversightboard/2025/01/27/id/1196753/

President Donald Trump ordered the removal of three Democrats from the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB), leaving the agency with one remaining board member.

The terminations were announced Monday by PCLOB spokesman Alan Silverleib. Chair Sharon Bradford Franklin and members Ed Felten and Travis LeBlanc were terminated by the White House as of last Thursday.

"The agency, however, has significant ability to continue functioning with its full staff and remaining Member Beth Williams to continue the Board's important mission, including its advice and oversight functions, and its current projects," read the statement.

The PCLOB was established in 2007 through the 9/11 Commission Act. The board says its "mission is to ensure that the federal government's efforts to prevent terrorism are balanced with the need to protect privacy and civil liberties."

Franklin's tenure was set to end this week, The New York Times reported, and there was already a vacancy on the board. Felten's tenure was set to end in January 2026 and LeBlanc's in January 2029.

"I regret that the board's partisan shift will ultimately undermine not only the mission of the agency, but public trust and confidence in the ability of the government to honor privacy rights, respect civil liberties, honestly inform the public, and follow the law," LeBlanc said in a statement.

According to the Times, Franklin, LeBlanc and Felten were instructed by Deputy Director of Presidential Personnel Trent Morse to submit their resignations by close of business on Jan. 23, the day after the inauguration. They didn't and hadn't received further word as of Friday before being dismissed by Morse on Monday, according to the report.

"This isn't about me — my term was set to end later this week anyway," Franklin said in a statement. "But I am devastated by the attack on the board's independence and the fact that our agency will have too few members to issue official reports."

PCLOB is part of the executive branch whose members are selected by the sitting president and by congressional leaders of the other party, according to the Times. Members serve six-year terms.

She don't look bad in that get-up.

>>22452820

U ARE!

Ya lazy fuck.

>>22452829

She'll want your wife or daughter.

>>22452842

Different jobs require different attire.

>>22452847

Suck a homeless man's dick, and he'll probably do it for you.

>>22452863

Fucking McDonald's coffee all over.

>>22452884

Time to freeze their assets.

>>22452939

>7,300 Illegals

Just a drop in the bucket, right now.

Looking forward to how that number looks in another week or two.

A 70-Year-Old Lesson Applicable Today for Feds

https://www.newsmax.com/politics/a-70-year-old-lesson-applicable-today/2025/01/28/id/1196795/

As President Donald Trump, Republican majorities in the House and Senate, and DOGE chair Elon Musk seek to address a $36 trillion national debt, a $1.8 trillion annual deficit, and a smaller, more efficient, and less costly federal government, they would be well served to renew a policy that the "government will not start or carry on any commercial activity to provide a service or product for its own use if such product or service can be procured from private enterprise through ordinary business channels," first promulgated 70 years ago by the Bureau of the Budget in the Eisenhower administration.

The Bureau of the Budget has since been replaced by the Office of Management Budget, its bulletins are now circulars, and 55-4 is now A-76. OMB Circular A-76, while still on the books today, is not enforced in the federal government.

Congress has effectively halted efficient utilization of private sector contractors for services that are commercial in nature through an appropriations bill rider moratorium. As a result, 1.1 million federal employees — more than half of the non-uniformed military and postal service federal workforce — are in positions deemed commercial in nature.

In performance of these activities, federal agencies duplicate private-sector businesses, engage in unfair government competition with private enterprise, including small business, and operate monopolies that have never been market tested.

Applying the Jan. 15, 1955, policy could save over $30 billion each year, increase efficiency, stimulate innovation, and rebalance the federal workforce into performance of inherently governmental functions.

The 1955 policy was supported by each president, Republican and Democrat, from Dwight D. Eisenhower through George W. Bush, until a 2009 government employee union inspired appropriations rider enacted while Democrat controlled the House, Senate, and White House under President Barack Obama prevented implementation of this good government tool.

The policy enables the federal government to employ the "yellow pages test," a simple and effective process that says if you can find firms in the yellow pages of the phone book providing products or services that the government is also providing, then the government service should be subject to market competition to break up the government monopoly and provide a better value to the taxpayer.

That is a test that has also been successfully applied by mayors and governors, Democrat and Republican, across the nation.

Federal agencies, as well as state and local government using federal funds, are engaged in activities ranging from architecture to zoology and include scores of other activities including audits, bus transportation, building codes, construction, debt and bill collections, campgrounds and concessions, engineering, equipment repair and maintenance depots, film studios and theater management, food service and security, graphics, healthcare services, hearing aids, information technology and data centers, insights and market research, insurance, laboratories and laboratory accreditation, landscaping, laundry and dry cleaning, office products, pest management and wildlife control, manufacturing, meeting planning, motor coaches, printing and chart production, public storage, recycling and waste management, road signage, roofing, security technologies and products, simulation technology and services, surveying, mapping and geospatial, tax preparation, transportation, travel planning, and utilities, and other tasks that have little to do with governing.

The government is the nation's largest banker, insurer, homeowner, landlord, utility provider, and bus, transit, and passenger train operator.

The 1955 budget bulletin was implemented when legislation mandating an end to government agency duplication and competition of private enterprise passed the House of Representatives and was headed for approval in the Senate when the White House argued that government or private sector performance decisions should be executive branch management determinations rather than a legislative mandate.

The past 70 years have demonstrated such an approach fell short. It is time to make the policy permanent.

>>22452982

Mordelo would have been the better choice, they drink it more often than Corona.

>>22452990

What makes you think we even need you now?

>>22453045

Wait till the criminals gets hold of it and empties out your bank account.