China’s Tech Giants Have a Second Job: Helping Beijing Spy on Its People

AT&T used to help the US with this, too. See 'The Idea Factory' for details on the 'Secret Schedules' the head of AT&T and AT&T research had so they could go explain their tech and make it easy to tap by Washington.

That's all tech giants in pretty much all countries. And not just their own people, they spy on foreigners too.

There's a reason why russia and china kick out foreign tech companies from time to time. There's a reason why EU demands access to source code/hardware specs/etc from foreign tech companies.

It's why all major nations ( US, China, Russia, etc ) are working towards creating and manufacturing a wholy native tech stack for their sensitive government and corporate institutions.