Nope, more useless EU bureaucracy (stupid cookie popup) just to pretend that the NSA won't get (be given) the data by EU governments. Everyone thinks the cookie law is dumb, but there it is, constantly reminding everyone of their folly.
And besides this the rules for how private companies can handle my data are totally different in the UK to the US. In the UK private data comes with fairly strict obligations under the data protection acts and leaking (even accidentally or due to insufficient safeguards preventing malicious actions) can be punished robustly. As I understand it in the US the laws are rather different.