Comment by graemep

11 hours ago

All is hyperbole, but given the reach of big tech combined with intelligence gathering it probably does have that access to almost all. Not because of lack of encryption but because there are so many routes to getting that data. The combination of US domination of cloud services with even greater domination of device OSes the US has access to most data if it wants to.

> almost all. ... access to most data if it wants to.

Well that's a quite an important difference.