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In that sense, it might actually be "safer" for an individual American to use a Chinese phone. It may be backdoored, but at least the PLA isn't going to share your vacation pics with the DEA, but the NSA might.

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Exactly why I use Russian services like Yandex mail. Russia can read it all they want but they'll never give it to the U.S.

That’s naive. When great powers have common goals, they cooperate just fine:

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/boston-bombing-anniversary...

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-usa-intelligence/u...

If you're an American and you use services outside of the US, you are in fact enabling - entirely legally - the NSA to do dramatically more aggressive things to target your information / data / email.

But... they were already doing it.. And no signs of stopping..

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