Most of these regulations are just anti-US protectionism in disguise. Regardless of the underlying merits of any such regulation, they’re used as trade barriers to give EU companies an edge over US ones, without doing anything as controversial as tariffs. I mean is there any material difference for a German citizen if their surveilled French intelligence over US intelligence? Sure, they have the EU courts to rely on, but if you’re caught up in a foreign (or even domestic) surveillance dragnet the outcome is going to be exactly the same, and there’s nothing you can do about it. All these agencies share huge amounts of data anyway, so the difference becomes quite academic.
> US companies can still do business in the EU btw, they will just need to structure their services so that data from EU citizens stays within the EU
I’d suggest people look at all of the privacy enforcement action in the EU, and ask themselves whether they think the actual outcome is protecting the privacy interest of EU citizens, or just the economic interests of member states.