I'm sorry, but this is lazy at best. > But the EU has discovered that it can extract money by threatening to ban the foreign companies for reasons of privacy,

I'm sorry, but this is lazy at best. > But the EU has discovered that it can extract money by threatening to ban the foreign companies for reasons of privacy, data protection etc. So your argument is that the EU, with trillions of dollars in GDP, decides to shoot itself in the foot by blocking one of the biggest inventions ever in order to "extract" a few millions of dollars here and there.