It totally depends on your definitions and which government you’re talking about. Israel’s use of pegasus malware to exfiltrate sensitive information from journalists and detractors is notorious. Considering how tight big tech in the US is with fascists (and the history of the NSA), it wouldn’t be a huge leap of logic to assume that they are at least trying to get backdoors installed and are making off the books deals with tech companies to acquire information extrajudicially.
It totally depends on your definitions and which government you’re talking about. Israel’s use of pegasus malware to exfiltrate sensitive information from journalists and detractors is notorious. Considering how tight big tech in the US is with fascists (and the history of the NSA), it wouldn’t be a huge leap of logic to assume that they are at least trying to get backdoors installed and are making off the books deals with tech companies to acquire information extrajudicially.