> but for some reason I think the us govt or anyone else will have a harder time getting to my data from them than the CCP will any chinese company.

US tech companies voluntarily give their data to the US government. Don't you remember PRISM? You think they stopped doing that?

> Internal NSA presentation slides included in the various media disclosures show that the NSA could unilaterally access data and perform "extensive, in-depth surveillance on live communications and stored information" with examples including email, video and voice chat, videos, photos, voice-over-IP chats (such as Skype), file transfers, and social networking details.[2] Snowden summarized that "in general, the reality is this: if an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc. analyst has access to query raw SIGINT [signals intelligence] databases, they can enter and get results for anything they want."[13]