The GDPR largely came about as a response to the Snowden revelations of pervasive surveillance of netizens globally, and it says you need to protect PI from non

The GDPR largely came about as a response to the Snowden revelations of pervasive surveillance of netizens globally, and it says you need to protect PI from non-EU state actors. So you're possibly right as far as EU state adversaries go but you for defending against foreign state actors it's different.