You can assume at this point that any significant communications network like this has traffic recorded by at least FVEY and probably other agencies too. They c

You can assume at this point that any significant communications network like this has traffic recorded by at least FVEY and probably other agencies too. They could probably intercept traffic leaving ground stations, even if the company didn't want them to. If that's important to you (say you're a lawyer, accountant, doctor, business, politician, judge, journalist etc ;), you'd be better to use encryption than worry about the network layer which you have no control over.