Meanwhile, the EU countries have spying regimes of their own that are just as intrusive. They want EU citizen data on-shore so they can spy on it, not so that t

Meanwhile, the EU countries have spying regimes of their own that are just as intrusive. They want EU citizen data on-shore so they can spy on it, not so that the US cannot. They've become the Iron Curtain. I'm not even certain I can blame the NSA. The Europeans have voted technological totalitarianism in. The EU Cookie law predates Snowden, and was a mild precursor of failures to come.