Setting aside corporate sovereignty, the US government also specializes in collecting personal data without consent, and pays private US companies to do so when

Setting aside corporate sovereignty, the US government also specializes in collecting personal data without consent, and pays private US companies to do so when privacy protection laws are passed by their leaders. It is not clear whether they have the political will to sign the GDPR or a reasonable equivalent into law, and very rich companies like Google and Verizon would spend their entire fortune suing to stop it block it, suspend it, and otherwise drag their feet in court for a decade.