New York Bans DeepSeek—What Healthcare & Business Owners Need to Learn From It
Another AI ban. Another warning. Another reminder that we keep getting this backward.
New York just banned DeepSeek, a Chinese-developed AI chatbot, from all government devices over serious concerns about data privacy, foreign influence, and censorship (WSJ). If you’re in healthcare, finance, or any industry handling sensitive information, you need to be paying attention.
Let’s not pretend this is new.
We’ve seen this cycle before: a flashy new tool offers advanced AI capabilities at a fraction of the cost, companies adopt it without questioning where the data is going, and then months (or years) later, governments start banning it.
Why does this matter to you?
It’s easy to shrug off a government AI ban as just another policy move, but if you run a dental practice, a law firm, or any business handling sensitive data, this should hit close to home. If New York is banning it, that means the risk was already there. It just took regulators this long to acknowledge it.
The same data exposure concerns apply to private businesses. If your office is using AI tools—chatbots, scheduling software, document automation—do you know where your patient or client data is actually going?
Big companies have cybersecurity budgets. You don’t. If a healthcare SaaS vendor quietly integrates risky AI, you won’t find out until something goes wrong. The real question: Why do we keep getting this wrong? Why do we let these tools embed themselves into our businesses before we ask the hard questions? Who owns this software? Where is the data going? How can it be exploited?
By the time a ban happens, it’s already too late.
What should business owners and healthcare providers do?
Don’t wait for the government to tell you what’s unsafe.
-If it’s free, cheap, or collecting personal data, assume you’re the product.
-Ask your vendors the tough questions. If they don’t have clear answers on data storage, encryption, and compliance, find one that does.
-Understand that AI tools can be great—but security has to come first. Cutting-edge tech isn’t worth losing patient or client trust.
This isn’t paranoia—it’s pattern recognition.
#HardenTheTarget #StayVigilant #AI #Cybersecurity #HealthcareIT
Original WSJ article: https://lnkd.in/eJJhCJHi
