U.S. law has never been compatible with E.U. data protection law as I understand it though, even before Snowden. The Europeans can't seriously have thought the

U.S. law has never been compatible with E.U. data protection law as I understand it though, even before Snowden. The Europeans can't seriously have thought the U.S. wasn't engaging in surveillance (and indeed, they did know otherwise, with ECHELON), so what can be said for that other than "caveat emptor"? Until multilateral treaties are passed dictating how one national jurisdiction will handle the data of another then every EU business using a US cloud service has just been using wishful thinking. And again, this was true even before Snowden.