I think you might be attributing motives where none exist, vertex. We are a US-based company, of course subject to all the same laws. The EU datacenter was in development prior to this news breaking. The effort was solely in response to customers in the EU experiencing latency due to a transoceanic hop. The hop negates much of the benefit of using a full-text search server.
Of course, privacy expectations are set by the customer, who controls access policies.