[strong_silent_t]

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.

[homero]

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.

[sologoub]

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...

[adventured]

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.

[ldiracdelta]

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