NASA issued a memo on Friday banning the use of the Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek’s technology due to “rising national security and privacy concerns,” CNBC reports.

DeepSeek, a rival to ChatGPT from OpenAI and Gemini from Google, quickly rose to the top of the Apple App Store earlier this week, prompting concern from international regulators over the company’s privacy policy, which allows the collection of user data including IP addresses, keystroke patterns, and chat and search query history.

The federal agency is the latest federal body to ban the use of DeepSeek, joining the U.S. Navy and the House of Representatives, due to concerns about how the company uses data harvested from users.

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