I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but lets be honest, its not just the "evil" Chinese government...
If you make international phone calls from the US, every conversation is recorded. If you send international email from the US, every message is recorded. Everything you post to Social Media is being data mined. ...and that was going on long BEFORE the so called "Patriot Act" basically opened the floodgates on domestic surveillance...
Personally, its not a big deal for me (other than philosophically). But, you should not be under any illusion about the privacy you think you have from your very own "altruistic" government.
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