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Texas AG DeepSeek investigation
The Attorney General's 2025 privacy investigation into DeepSeek's data practices, at the intersection of consumer data collection and foreign-access concerns. Investigation stage; not a finding of liability.
Status
- Legal status
- Investigation; last verified event: investigation announced February 14, 2025 (OAG device ban January 28, 2025; investigation announced February 14, 2025; CIDs to Google and Apple for their review of the app; Texas privacy law and AI-capability claims; no later public outcome appears in the sources reviewed as of October 13, 2026)
- Allegation or finding
- Allegation (not a finding)
- Applicability
- DeepSeek
- Enforceability
- Allegations only
- Procedural posture
- Investigation stage
- Law checked through
- October 13, 2026
- Source
- Hunton
Procedural events
- 2025-01-28: OAG bans DeepSeek on office devices
- 2025-02-14: Investigation announced (per Bloomberg Law); CIDs issued to Google and Apple for their review of the app
Related guides
- Foreign Access: the DOJ Data Program, PADFAA, and CFIUS
- AI Data, Derived Information, Privacy Engineering, and Evidence
- Attorney General Enforcement and Investigations