[majewsky]

There was a contract between the US and EU that was supposed to address this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU%E2%80%93US_Privacy_Shield

As described in the Wikipedia article, the contract has been thrown out by the European Court of Justice for exactly the reasons stated by the parent comment.

> [Standard contractual clauses] do not necessarily protect data in countries where the law is fundamentally incompatible with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU and the GDPR, like the US.