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> if a major launch of this sort of service omits the EU we immediately know exactly why.

Yeah, because implementing compliance features takes time and they likely opted to launch early instead.

Oh how nice, we Europeans get the non-beta version without those pesky privacy bugs :)

Anybody who has worked on rolling out large scale software systems should understand this.

Personally, I think the US should also have much stronger laws that safeguard the data of their people.