As a reminder, Red Hat Linux (one of the founding members of the Linux foundation) is IBM, IBM is American.
Google is American, etc... Etc... Most AI companies are American, and these are properly slurping data like crazy from their European customers ("Help me write a commercial proposal for XYZ!").
Since there are so many contributors to the Linux kernel, it should be possible for intelligence agencies to slip a little something in there. See xz Trojan, software bill of materials.
2/