Given your statement that privacy is a relatively modern concept, I find it interesting that the EU has comparatively stronger data protection laws. Those coun

Given your statement that privacy is a relatively modern concept, I find it interesting that the EU has comparatively stronger data protection laws. Those countries in general are way older and have older laws than the US. So if they can have strong data protection and privacy why should the US not have an equivalent? Giving up protection in the name of commercial interest is not a good solution or compromise.