Sure, but there's a difference between having the potential to do something, and actively doing it. I'm aware the FBI/CIA can get my data from Google if they want it, but something would have to trigger them into wanting to investigate me. With a Chinese company there is no "if", all of the data goes straight to the CCP. Tencent, the bloated multimedia company, even had a moment of ironic hypocrisy where they didn't want to give away all of their users' data.

[–] kenbw2@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The US and UK governments have literally that

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden

[–] Gabu@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should probably read your own links. It only reinforces what I said. Also, I'm thankfully not American.

[–] kenbw2@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I assume you're referring to the fact that it claims to be based on court orders

You might want to look into what the FISA court counts as oversight