[ghoward]

> to be honest as you can imagine I am very glad that my representative in the EU didn't back down and protect my rights.

I'm the asker of the question that started this discussion. I'm a US citizen.

I'm actually on the side of the EU here. There needs to be privacy protections for consumers. Even though the requirement for a rep in the EU is impossible for me to fulfill, I admire the fact that they prioritized native EU companies over foreign ones because that is what's best for the EU inside the EU.

I'm mad at the US government for the CLOUD Act, which is egregarious and doesn't serve the interests of the US; it only serves the interests of the US government.