❗️Belgium has banned DeepSeek from all federal government devices because officials see security and data protection risks.

After an assessment from the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium, staff were told to uninstall the app from work phones and laptops from early Dec-25 so that prompts, documents, and logs do not sit on systems the state cannot fully audit.

Belgium is following other governments, including Taiwan, Australia, South Korea, Canada, India, Italy, Czechia, the Netherlands, and the US, that already blocked DeepSeek on official hardware over suspected data exfiltration and possible