Concern expressed that the popular app may send personal information to the Chinese government Sault Ste. Marie city council voted Monday to prepare a plan to ban the DeepSeek chatbot app from all city devices and networks. Ward 4 Couns. Stephan Kinach and Marchy Bruni suggested the popular software be banned, expressing concern that the Chinese-owned app may allow unauthorized access to private information including names, emails, telephone numbers and dates of birth, along with text or audio inputs, prompts, uploaded files, feedback, and chat histories. Released in late January, the large language model app soared almost immediately to the…