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How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To (www.wired.com)
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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago

This is a weird line in the sand. Instead of focusing on where something is build, shouldnywe focus on technical details and software licenses?

For example, Signal is based in the US, but the app is structured in such a way that they have minimal information: just the creation time and last login, associated with a phone number. That has even been tried in court, and that's literally all they could provide. Telegram is worse technically speaking, but it's headquartered outside the US.

Don't evaluate software based on where it's developed, evaluate it based on what is does and can do in the future.