it's all just American propaganda with the Chinese spy on every Chinese product. But if you really want to be scared, then buy a Samsung Smart TV, in the instructions it says then you should not have private conversations in front of the TV because the microphone is always on and listens in, that's what is hidden in the instructions inside under 30 pages of small print....

While there is no public evidence of state-mandated backdoors in Ubuntu, the UK’s Investigatory Powers Act (often called the "Snoopers' Charter") allows the government to issue Technical Capability Notices that could legally compel UK-based companies to assist in data interception. Since Canonical Ltd. (the company behind Ubuntu) is headquartered in London, they are subject to UK jurisdiction. Moving to Deepin, which is developed by a China-based company, would shift your everfi login legal threat model from UK/Five Eyes oversight to Chinese jurisdiction; however, from a purely technical security standpoint, most privacy advocates suggest that a distribution's country of origin is less important than its transparency. Because Ubuntu is open-source, the global community can inspect its code for backdoors, whereas moving to a different OS simply swaps one set of potential jurisdictional pressures for another.