Ebad Ahmed
04 March 2025•Update: 04 March 2025
COPENHAGEN, Denmark
The Danish parliament banned the use of the Chinese artificial intelligence service Deepseek on Tuesday because of security concerns, state news media outlet DR reported.
The decision follows an earlier advisory warning to politicians and staff at Christiansborg, or parliament, against using the platform.
Parliament confirmed in a statement on its website that the Presidium, the body responsible for overseeing parliamentary procedures, decided to introduce a formal ban.
“The Presidium of the Danish Parliament is responsible for ensuring that the Danish Parliament’s IT systems are sufficiently secure, and it does not want to give access to Deepseek due to the risk of monitoring of the Danish Parliament’s data,” it said.
The ban applies to all devices provided by the parliament, effectively preventing lawmakers, employees and other users within the institution from accessing the AI tool.
The EU, meanwhile, has also moved to ban TikTok on official work phones, and several US states have banned the app service.
TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese firm, suspected by the West of passing users' data to the Chinese government. The company has maintained that the bans are based on a “basic misunderstanding of our corporate structure.”
The Danish Engineering Association trade union has also called for the state to ban the functionality of the app on all phones used for official correspondence in the public sector.
