Taiwan’s NSB Flags Security Breaches, Pro-China Bias in Five China-Made AI Models

Overview

• Taiwan’s National Security Bureau, working with the MJIB and CIB, inspected DeepSeek, Doubao, Yiyan, Tongyi and Yuanbao for app security and generated content.
• Tongyi failed 11 of 15 mobile app security indicators, Doubao and Yuanbao failed 10, Yiyan failed 9 and DeepSeek failed 8 under Taiwan’s Basic Information Security Testing Standard v4.0.
• Common issues included requests for location access, screenshot collection, forced acceptance of unreasonable privacy terms and harvesting of device parameters.
• Content tests found outputs aligning with China’s official positions on Taiwan, repeated claims that Taiwan is not a country and keyword avoidance on topics such as democracy, human rights and the Tiananmen Square crackdown.
• The NSB warned the models can generate exploit code, cautioned about data being sent to China under laws compelling companies to share user data, noted allied warnings and app-store removals, and said only DeepSeek is banned on Taiwanese government devices to date.