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Motorola Mobility is American, and a subsidiary of Lenovo who are Chinese.
American is not better. Anybody remember Edward Snowden? I'm sure it's only gotten worse since then.
The US is far, far more of a threat than China even remotely is. That being said, I highly doubt the GOS devs would even consider any collaboration if a backdoor was ever a possibility.
The possibility of backdoors is unavoidable, and it's part of their threat model. It's why the mobile baseband is isolated, for example.
If you're American*
or any global north country, honestly, especially in the five eyes
there’s not much one could do to anger the chinese government enough for them to risk sending agents to kidnap or kill a westerner
all the US needs is a request to law enforcement
I dunno what that means. US doesn't have jurisdiction outside the US, just like China doesn't have jurisdiction outside of China, so not a whole lot they can do to you. I have heard of Chinese kidnapping their own people who fled to the US, but I'm not sure how true that is.
In the US, yes. Not even that, really.
China having police stations in the europe for example is a bit much to me.
Oh yeah, to be clear I was just clarifying the structure. I don't consider American companies to be any more trustworthy than companies based elsewhere.
So does that mean that collaboration is done with American company and not Chinese company?
Simple answer is yes.
However, Lenovo have full legal and financial control over Motorola. But because Motorola is a subsidiary, it's legally distinct from its parent company. And because it's incorporated in the USA it has to be compliant with US law. So, for example, Lenovo is not permitted to compel Motorola to violate US law.