Yep. I use Chinese brand phones because if they're snooping all my shit, they're much further away from me than my own government and not likely to have sharing arrangements.
It's likely an additional data point in some kind of 'suspicious' rating.
I think I hit quite a few of those 'suspicious' check-boxes that law enforcement would consider important, whilst actually technically knowledgeable people wouldn't even blink at them. Refer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39050898
