One theory is that the language could give the government leverage when it requests access to data from private companies, which may try to push back on those asks if there is no clear legal justification.
The law “could, in a kind of backwards way, make it easier for those state organs to access the data, because now they can cite this law as part of their legal justification,”
Apparently the evil, authoritarian Chinese government is currently stopped cold whenever a debate nerd questions whether their legal justification is explicit enough. It would be much more dangerous and Orwellian to give people explicit privacy protections, than to use the US approach of giving people no protections, ensuring that the private companies immediately roll over to any request they receive, and collecting any data they can get their hands on.
Apparently the evil, authoritarian Chinese government is currently stopped cold whenever a debate nerd questions whether their legal justification is explicit enough. It would be much more dangerous and Orwellian to give people explicit privacy protections, than to use the US approach of giving people no protections, ensuring that the private companies immediately roll over to any request they receive, and collecting any data they can get their hands on.