I'm generally confused as to how the EU seemingly gets things right when it comes to privacy like banning biometric surveillance yet seems completely hell bent on creating a surveillance state in other areas (like banning encryption outright [0] or creating outsized penalties for wrong-speak [1]).

Of course the US just builds things like this for political gain and taxation.

0 - https://mailbox.org/en/post/it-companies-warn-eu-plans-to-ba... 1 - https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_...