China passed a law last year which is of great concern to privacy experts and which we have previously discussed in the forum. It allows the Chinese government to run what they are calling anti-hacking tests on any company with servers in China and to keep all the data that they find. This is new, it’s different, and I’m not aware of any other country in the world that has a similar law. It’s not just about something being made in a Chinese factory. It’s about customer data entered through the app.
It also doesn’t require most of the published privacy policies for the app company to have to change, because most of them have said “we will turn over information if the government provides a legal request for it. “ in most countries, including the US and the UK, those legal requests have to be narrowly tailored and targeting a specific individual.
But with the new law in China, customer information can now get swept up in these “robustness tests,” and the information can come from hundreds of thousands of people. Without any one target being specified. 
So, no, I don’t think it’s a moot point. I think it’s an important point that people should be aware of.
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