Yes, except its not a 'pretence'. There are different values operating in Europe. Protecting companies that represent those values is a way of protecting the va

Yes, except its not a 'pretence'. There are different values operating in Europe. Protecting companies that represent those values is a way of protecting the values themselves. We do indeed regard privacy differently than the US I think. European people just aren't down with the "Surveillance Capitalism" (Zuboff) view of the world. We have our own equally twisted take on "socialist cybernetics", but that's another story.