However I don't see that, and thus Europeans familiar with the relevant cases give “dominance of Americans” as the reason.
The European Comission has repeteadly tried to figure out a framework that would let US providers access EU markets safely, respecting EU laws. Every single attempt has been broken because there is no way for an US company to respect EU law and also comply with the CLOUD act.
The bit of law you suggest would essentially make it impossible for a company to respect both EU law and US law.
The CLOUD Act requires US based companies to comply with US requests for data even when that data is stored exclusively outside the US. It's in direct conflict with the GDPR.
Sources for this extraordinary claim, please.
As an EU citizen I'm interested in the EU protecting my privacy, not for nationalistic reasons, not to prop up EU's industries. I care that my data isn't willy-nilly given away under some opaque mechanisms controlled by large corporations, because as many here on HN like to remind me: capitalism is amoral, this is some regulation instilling morals into the system.
I want to be aware and protected about where my data is being used, for what purposes, and I want to have the power to control how corporations can use my data, or if they can use it at all. This kind of data can be modeled into a version of what a system sees as "me", through the interactions I had with it, building a profile of what moves, and interests me, I want to be able to know and control who can know, and to what degree, who I am.
If you are against that, please explain why.
The regulation just makes sure Europe stays unimportant in tech. We will always be a secondary market that services get taken to once they've become successful elsewhere.
It's not even about any specific regulation anymore. Just the fact that they've been so trigger happy with regulations is enough to chase away investors and startups.
I would also like to remind people that the EU did adopt the Data Retention Directive in the past that forced ISPs to keep logs of every website people visited. That kind of soured any belief I had of EU politicians caring about our privacy.
>According to the Data Retention Directive, EU member states had to store information on all citizens' telecommunications data (phone and internet connections) for a minimum of six months and at most twenty-four months, to be delivered on demand to police authorities.
The EU has a fundamentally different viewpoint on data privacy to the USA. And they are entitled to it. The EU has roughly as many citizens as the USA under a single governance; why should they not collectively argue?
Many Europeans do, also, think the USA is mad on other issues and are unwilling to see a situation where the USA's chosen solutions to things are the de facto solutions. They see data privacy as one of the last opportunities to resist that.
(Alas here in the UK we decided we didn't want to be part of that solidarity, and we are apparently desperate to capitulate.)
As a side note, why is it only ever non-American states that are said to "prop up" their own businesses? It's a two-way street.