[jbkiv]

Facenook, Meta, Google and others will slowly but surely get the squeeze in any way possible. They did EVERYTHING they could to get away from privacy laws. Their sleazy attitude, they contempt for regulators "we have more money than your own country and we will litigate until you run out of money" has worked. Arrogance paid off. Until now. The Feds did not catch the mob bosses killing or stealing but they eventually caught them and indicted them on tax evasion. You see the same thing here. Countries will use any tool they can, and there are plenty: store the data on servers located in our country, etc... It will never end. On the top of the Apple squeeze...

[aliswe]

correct me if im wrong but this is not about privacy laws, this is about the US govt being able to force US based companies to share data on non US-citizens.

[dathinab]

yes, that's the main point why the US doesn't count as safe harbor and any "contractual agreements" are not worth much as US companies can't "opt. out" of US law.

[shafyy]

And you wouldn't call that privacy?

[aliswe]

its because of their national security interest though, which I respect in principle, and the parent post was talking about the companies themselves tracking the users virtually without consent. to me those aspects are very different