[olliej]

No?

This is the obvious outcome of the US government’s repeated and explicit statement that non-US residents do not have any due process rights and thus no warrant requirements, followed by - when companies tried to compensate for this abuse by creating subsidiaries in the EU - stating that the US government also had access to all subsidiaries data, again with no due process protections.

What did the US government think would happen when they made it clear that no US company could provide due process protections for any EU data that they possessed?

This has nothing to do with the “IP theft”, but rather the inability of US companies to comply with universally applicable EU law.

[raverbashing]

True, this is the crux of it

If you let all subsidiaries of M/G/A within reach of US courts (including customer data) don't get surprised when other countries treat it as toxic

The US gov would never accept this in procurement, so why should other countries?

On the case in question, it seems the company changed the tender document to take out some (protection) clauses

[olliej]

Yeah, the late (post acceptance?) changes seem questionable on their own. Presumably they were reminded that the US gov argued and won with the Supreme Court, that they have unfettered access to all non-us-resident customer data of all US companies, and said companies subsidiaries, regardless of local laws. After all, as we know the US Declaration of Independence says "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all residents of the united states are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights".