“I am beyond concerned — I am deeply alarmed — that China is moving forward with a so-called privacy standard,” Blumenthal said in a recent POLITICO Live interview, pointing to China’s hacking abilities as a major national security threat that’s been exacerbated by the lack of a U.S. privacy standard. “Because privacy protection is data protection, it is national security protection.”

is he saying its bad because now they can't spy on them?