The whole US / EU safe harbour provisions issue is because the EU is not satisfied that in the United States you don’t in fact have a justice system that can st

The whole US / EU safe harbour provisions issue is because the EU is not satisfied that in the United States you don’t in fact have a justice system that can stop the government… that there are insufficient powers to stop certain parts of the government like the the NSA, CIA, DEA, FBI counter terrorism groups etc… who are granted extraordinary powers to do questionable shit like sucking up as much internet data as possible without a warrant in the name off “efficiency” using such flimsy reasoning as “it’s only a search for legal purposes when we run a database query on a US citizens data later” and “we’re legally allowed to do anything we like with the data of anyone who isn’t a US citizen… so these EU guys can fuck off” (or the appropriate US lawyer speak equivalent)