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title: "The Department of Homeland Security published a notice of order in the Federal Register on Monday requiring federal civilian agencies to immediately strip DeepSeek products from their IT systems an..."
description: "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has ordered federal civilian agencies within its authority to stop using DeepSeek products and remove them from agency IT systems. The order also covers DeepSeek affiliates and third-party products and services built using DeepSeek"
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published_at: "2026-10-21"
updated_at: "2026-10-21"
record_date: "2026-10-21"
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topics: ["agent-security","sandbox"]
entities: ["U.S. Department of Homeland Security","DeepSeek","CISA","ByteDance"]
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novelty_label: "same_event"
what_changed: "Same event as Homeland Security ordered every federal civilian agency to remove DeepSeek and stop buying it, effective immediately."
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source_url: "https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dhs-bans-deepseek-products-across-us-federal-civilian-agencies"
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# The Department of Homeland Security published a notice of order in the Federal Register on Monday requiring federal civilian agencies to immediately strip DeepSeek products from their IT systems an...

## Retrieval answer

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has ordered federal civilian agencies within its authority to stop using DeepSeek products and remove them from agency IT systems. The order also covers DeepSeek affiliates and third-party products and services built using DeepSeek

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has ordered federal civilian agencies within its authority to stop using DeepSeek products and remove them from agency IT systems. The order also covers DeepSeek affiliates and third-party products and services built using DeepSeek technology.

Agencies must immediately exclude covered products from procurement, including approved-product lists and purchasing marketplaces. They must also remove the products from systems or seek an exception. Exception requests are due within 60 days of the order's issuance and must describe the justification and proposed risk mitigations; CISA will issue written approvals or denials.

DHS cited concerns about Chinese government access to DeepSeek infrastructure, personal-data collection, user tracking, and potential transfers of sensitive government data to China. The order is not a general ban on private or consumer use in the United States.

The source does not establish how many agencies or systems currently use DeepSeek, which specific third-party products are covered, or how many exceptions CISA will grant.

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