The issue is older than that : it dates back at least to the warrantless wiretapping authorized by Bush with the 2001 Patriot Act and legalized with the 2008 u

The issue is older than that : it dates back at least to the warrantless wiretapping authorized by Bush with the 2001 Patriot Act and legalized with the 2008 update of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, being incompatible with the 2000-2010 Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, making the 1998-2000 Safe Harbor agreements between the US and the EU null and void, as first judged by the Court of Justice of the European Union in 2015 (Schrems I). GDPR (2016-2018) and the CLOUD Act (2018) are basically just the EU and the US digging deeper into their respective positions.