Germany Wants DeepSeek Gone — and It’s More Than a Privacy Scuffle

Germany just demanded Apple and Google remove DeepSeek — a fast-growing Chinese AI app — from their app stores. Not because of hate speech, fake news, or malware. But because the chatbot quietly ships user data straight to China, beyond EU oversight. The issue may seem bureaucratic, but it cuts to the core of 21st-century geopolitics: Who owns your thoughts when you talk to AI?