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If you're running Windows, always assume that if the US Authorities or Microsoft itself want to spy on you as an individual or on do a little industrial espionage on your company (which US agencies also do), they'll just use a backdoor already present or at worse push an update to your machines(s) to create said backdoor.
Treat any and all software made by US companies as a foreign agent.
All the shit that the US Government and companies say about China, is pure Projection - the result of a mental process of "what would we do if we were the ones making those devices". (And, yeah, China probably does that shit too)
If it ain't Open Source, you got it as a binary or it can self-update, that software is somebody else's agent and you're trusting their ethics and goodwill when you have it running in your system outside a sandbox.
What's unfortunate is a significant number of people don't like hearing this and instead choose to project onto other countries. Most of our governments aren't our friends, regardless if you're American or not.