@humanhorseshoes @EUCommission Historically, I believe there have been trade agreements between the US and the EU which were particularly unilateral (favoring US companies) by basically allowing data transfers between the two regions under certain conditions
Except EU regulation is much more strict on those matters, so Big Tech has been exploiting the agreements to exfiltrate data and process it on their own terms
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU%E2%80%93US_Privacy_Shield for an example of such an agreement