I work on an IoT device that does the most mundane of things and to think the data goes 1/2 way around the world just to turn something on with the service prov

I work on an IoT device that does the most mundane of things and to think the data goes 1/2 way around the world just to turn something on with the service provided by the Chinese chip-making company who is absolutely only concerned with profit - I don't suggest they are spying - but wouldn't for a second have a problem handing over data if they were asked i.e. zero principles ... It's just too much. FYI one answer to all of this is some kind of 'home mesh network' that has some kind of central computing entity so that at least our IoT services work locally. One day Apple/Google may pull it off.