The CIA has banned that stuff because their employees are high value targets for chinese intelligence agencies.

You don't have any data collection restrictions in the US (thanks to the patrion act).

Law enforcement has coplete access to the ring doorbell cameras. Google and Facebook have repeatedly worked together with the CIA and FBI. It has been established that the US elections have been tampered with via targeted advertising in combination with misinformation. As a regular US citizen, you are simply not a target for China. The US government however has repeatedly proven that it spies on foreign and their own citieens.

And all that "dumbing down" conspiracy theory: It is far more likely that a profit driven corporation simply optimizes for maximum engagement for ad revenue.