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Apparently several Pentagon employees have been accessing the Chinese AI DeepSeek for MONTHS on their work computers. And they just got caught.

DeepSeek’s privacy policy admits that the AI chatbot not only stores user data on servers in China but also controls that information under Chinese law. It doesn’t take a Silicon Valley elite to understand the national security risks at play when Defense Department employees connect their government computers to China’s new tech.

I don’t even use my work computer for personal searches for a restaurant menu. And the nature of my work precludes using AI for most things (for which it would be perfect) due to the confidential nature of the data.

But wait… there’s more…

The Government Services Administration was totally co-opted by trans ideology and due to the nature of their work, were able to disseminate it to the entire federal government. Not only did they refuse to implement security protocols such as facial recognition, via their tech office, 18F, they went a lot further.

It is a GSA-run tech office that “builds, buys, and shares” technology across all agencies. Of course, their role went well beyond that simple descriptor, with 18F dictating everything from the language used to how all federal meetings were conducted so as to promote “diversity and inclusion.” That’s how the country ended up with an “inclusion bot” hounding employees about using terms like “grandfathered” and “guys.” Yes, you’re taxpayer dollars were paying to maintain an Orwellian bot that told people have to speak.

The Office of Personnel Management has had a bunch of employees locked out of their databases. On January 20, Musk’s employees took over a whole floor.

The two officials, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation, said some senior career employees at OPM have had their access revoked to some of the department’s data systems.

The systems include a vast database called Enterprise Human Resources Integration, which contains dates of birth, Social Security numbers, appraisals, home addresses, pay grades and length of service of government workers, the officials said.

Officials affected by the move can still log on and access functions such as email but can no longer see the massive datasets that cover every facet of the federal workforce.

A team including current and former employees of Musk assumed command of OPM on Jan. 20, the day Trump took office. They have moved sofa beds onto the fifth floor of the agency’s headquarters, which contains the director’s office and can only be accessed with a security badge or a security escort, one of the OPM employees said.

I’m guessing that it was done to protect the data because the systems have extensive confidential personal information on every government employee.

Considering the other stupid throughout government agencies, I’m glad someone with an idea about data security is taking control.