China is the leading bogeyman used to suggest allowing monopolies in the US is a good idea. In short, since China allows their companies to behave badly, we should let ours behave badly too so that we don't fall behind in the market.
Even so, it comes across as a jingoistic diversion in order to paint users and advertisers as being on the same side. "It would be a shame if there were one fewer group stalking you everywhere you go, because then the right people wouldn't be stalking you."
I think the risk is that your targeting information is in the hands of a company that can be mined by the Chinese government to perhaps even identify you. It's also aggregate market/economic information. Should this data be protected or otherwise restricted? Should it be export controlled or not? You can imagine that the "data wars" are coming ... whether that's healthy competition or something else I don't think we know yet or have policy around. I think the EU is further ahead in this space with policies around data privacy for example.
The US could operate similarly but we usually expect a warrant for such access but I think there is a big push in the US govt to expand access as well.
>The US could operate similarly but we usually expect a warrant for such access but I think there is a big push in the US govt to expand access as well.
With PRISM starting data collection from Google more than 10 years ago I think expecting a warrant for this very valuable data is generous.