[ROTMetro]

Why should they? Europe signed free trade agreements and promised they would open their markets to the USA if the USA reciprocated. Excluding American companies from doing business seems a pretty big violation of this. I guess EU is free to cancel those free trade agreements, but they aren't free to just ignore them and just make it illegal for American companies to do business in Europe because of privacy rules that exclude American companies purely on the fact that they are American.

[testaccountfor]

American cloud companies spy on European citizens on behalf of American government. This is illegal under European law.

[xdennis]

> Europe signed free trade agreements and promised they would open their markets to the USA if the USA reciprocated.

I'm unaware of any free trade agreements with the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_free_trade_agre...

The US only has free trade agreements with some American countries and South Korea/Australia outside: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_free-trade_agree...

But this is all irrelevant because free trade doesn't trump rights (privacy/due process/etc).

[htkibar]

Safe trusting an US based company with data _at the very least_ requires that US doesn't have a law that allows them to spy on us.

How does this not compute for Americans, I cannot even comprehend.