I find it comical how EU countries become horrified if the US is seen to impose itself overseas (there is a huge movement to block the US from extraditing a hacker from the UK) but here the EU is trying to create laws for the US and impose those laws on US citizens.
I am sorry but the US constitution does not give EU authority over the US. Never did, never will (and that is a good thing because the EU courts seem to be running amuck).
The EU can demand all they want, that does not change any US law.
If the Patriot Act can't override EU laws in the EU, how then can EU expect EU laws to override the Patriot Act on US soil?
If I give data to some French based company and my data is stored in France, because I am from the US is the French company bound by the US laws that govern how my data is to be protected? Answer: No, if the French company does not have a US data center the French company is not bound by US laws.
If a EU person gives a US company data and that data is stored in the US, because the person is from the EU how in the world does that change US laws? Answer: It doesn't.
The EU may want to pretend that they write the worlds laws, but they do not.
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