>1. My government will use this tech only for good.
Precisely, and even now there are a steady stream of examples of people in power using tech for no good, here's just a tiny snippet of examples where police had mis-used databases to spy, stalk and harass:
The more you look, the more you find - and this barely scratches the surface of ways that systems that hold personal data can be abused.
When designing any new law, we must always consider the fact that there is no such thing as "good guys" and "bad guys". The potential for abuse must be extremely limited and the benefits of the law should legitimately outweigh the potential abuses.
1. My government will use this tech only for good. 2. I don't live in China, so why should I care about that.
If you say that your current government loses freedom and how do you go back to freedom, then they think differently.
It makes them think they need freedom now in hardware and software, so they can go back to freedom, instead of being permanently stuck in non-freedom.