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by still_grokking 1701 days ago
I'm not form the US and also not a lawyer but I've heard that this goes even to the point that someone using a public communications network has no legal expectation of privacy in the US.

The lack of data-privacy regulations is likely rooted in the fact that the US never had an experience like the EU with the Nazis who literally killed on behalf of data.

Sure, the US famously "kills people based on matadata"¹, but not US people so most US people don't care.

But I've also heard that some people in the US start to recognize the value of data-privacy regulations. That's positive to note.

¹ https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Hayden_(general)