It should be noted the U.S. takes full advantage of this — the National Security Agency loves that so much of the world's Internet traffic gets routed through the United States and is notorious for the scope and extent of the data it captures on foreigners, to say nothing of U.S. citizens communicating with folks abroad. No doubt lawmakers concerned about China's capture of Americans' data are paranoid in part because they know just how much of this sort of thing we're up to over here. 4/11