It can, but most likely it only would if you're doing illegal shit and get caught. They'd search your place for evidence and FDE could keep them from discovering some things.
But uh, if they got that far into investigating you then you're probably already screwed.
Magnetic tape can be pretty good. This specific tape I don't know, but there's a reason enterprises to this day STILL widely use magnetic tape to store archives.
Though, that may be because a single tape cassette can hold way more than a hard drive, and is cheaper. But I imagine they'd need to have longevity too.
Depends on the vote. For example see the yearly "The US Blockade is illegal and immoral and should stop immediately" UN vote. Pretty much always just US and Israel. And lately Ukraine.
Edit: and one or two heavily US aligned tiny Island nations sometimes e.g. Marshall Islands
The most common way is basically calling up your phone company and pretending to be you saying you needed to switch phones
But also beyond just that the networks that route calls and texts globally are not very secure... and it's not as hard as it should be to get access to it.
I don't want to defend them too much but honestly out of all the loot boxes out there theirs is the least bad. You can even just sell the boxes you get for free by playing and buy shit (on Steam) with the money.
I have Immich running on my home server. That file system get regularly backed up to an external HDD. The photos are also rcloned to BackBlaze B2, including retention for deleted files for a bit.
It can, but most likely it only would if you're doing illegal shit and get caught. They'd search your place for evidence and FDE could keep them from discovering some things.
But uh, if they got that far into investigating you then you're probably already screwed.