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The biggest group of people who do like the regulation seem to be EU citizens who want a reason to feel superior to Americans. It's unfortunate nationalism.

I'm not sure nationalism has anything to do with it. To most of the world, life is not primarily a competition with the US, and the kind of "superiority" that some Americans value is not an aspiration but a warning.

I think it is more likely that many Europeans simply place a higher value on privacy than some of our friends from across the pond. This is a matter of culture and our culture is influenced by some painful lessons about what can happen if too much privacy is lost. For historical and geographical reasons, I suspect most people in the US and their near ancestors have never experienced the dangers that all of us over here have been taught about, sometimes from first-hand accounts.