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George Phillips

Is DeepSeek safe to use?

DeepSeek logo on mobile phone.

DeepSeek AI has enjoyed quite the wild ride over the last few weeks. The Chinese AI platform exploded onto the scene at the end of January, jumping to number one in the App Store's free apps list and tanking Nvidia and Google stocks.

But don't rush to download and try out the app everyone is talking about as a number of privacy and security concerns have been raised about DeepSeek – ones even standard privacy software like the best VPNs may not be able to help protect against.

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