I'm going to be downvoted but... Android has access to all my files and is installed on my phone even before I reach the USA. Since the US government seems to have close ties (1) with Google, this makes me a bit nervous as well.
So I'm not sure the chinese are more evil than our occidental countries...
Moreover, it seems that chinese authorities force people to install their software on the phones. But, last time I checked, I was forced to accept the EULA on my phone as soon as I turned it on (Nokia One for the record). I'm sure that I'm just as "forced" to install Android on my phone as I'm forced to install the chinese software : basically I can refuse, but it means that I have to throw the phone away...
Obviously I make a kind of caricature here, but my point is : whatever the way it is installed, the software on your phone is controlled by a powerful entity, controlled maybe by a powerful government which has, like most of them, some blood on its hands. There's nothing wrong with that, that's history; but we don't need to look to far away to see problems with privacy...
[1] https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/
So I'm not sure the chinese are more evil than our occidental countries...
Moreover, it seems that chinese authorities force people to install their software on the phones. But, last time I checked, I was forced to accept the EULA on my phone as soon as I turned it on (Nokia One for the record). I'm sure that I'm just as "forced" to install Android on my phone as I'm forced to install the chinese software : basically I can refuse, but it means that I have to throw the phone away...
Obviously I make a kind of caricature here, but my point is : whatever the way it is installed, the software on your phone is controlled by a powerful entity, controlled maybe by a powerful government which has, like most of them, some blood on its hands. There's nothing wrong with that, that's history; but we don't need to look to far away to see problems with privacy...
[1] https://wikileaks.org/google-is-not-what-it-seems/