Wiretapping laws don’t cover who you can take photos of.

if you turn off end to end encryption

isn’t that the main reason to use it though, privacy?

Ah, okay. That makes sense.

Trader Joes is only located in the lower 48 states.

Aldi in North America is owned by a different parent company than Trader Joes. Both parent companies are named Aldi. The context of the original question was essentially asking “Aren’t Aldi (US) and Trader Joes owned by the same company?” to which Mr Worldly Wiseman responded with a correct no. No further specification needed because you can simply look to the broader context the question was asked in.