@SwiftOnSecurity GPDR is not divine, but it grows on you. You just have to know the historical development to understand the different mindsets in the US and the EU.
My speech goes like this: "What does (my home state of) Hesse have in common with California?" - They were the first in their countries to pass data protection legislation.
Here comes the clincher: "When was that?" - In 1970 and 2020, respectively.
The first nationwide milestone was back in 1983 when the Federal Constitutional Court stopped a planned census because it would violate the privacy rights of individual citizens.
So, we are just more than 50 years ahead of you in the development of privacy protection. It will probably be a few years before the managers of US Big-Tech companies will / can understand the European approach - and adopt it.