>What worries me much more is backdoors from the foreign companies and governments that can be pre-installed at the factory to collect intelligence information.

Most Americans are at a greater threat of harm from their own government that a foreign one. What worries me is all the mass surveillance done by big tech which bypasses the 4th Amendment and gives the government Americans data without a warrant.

There's already a front door with the adtech for US alphabet boys. This could likely be collected by others as well. We saw this happened where foreign hackers exploited a backdoor designed for American authorities[1]. This is what experts are referring to when they say there's no backdoor only for me.

This could be compelling to politicians, though, and would certainly be a step in the right direction.

>- any telemetry or data collection, or updates must be opt-in only and disabled by default

This should be how it is for everything foreign made software or not. Would be very hard to get done with the big tech lobby in the US.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/07/the-30-year-old-internet-b...