Re: Let me get this straight
"Therefore you (USA) need to follow our (EU) rules."
Or just get a waiver contract signed by the person. EUians are perfectly free to scan their souls and email the file straight to NSAbook if they want. If history is any guide, they will cheerfully sign over their firstborn for a few shiny trinkets.
Trying to legislate total mandatory privacy is a losing battle. For example, take international air travel. If personally-identifying data is controlled by EU law, and cannot under any circumstances be exported to another country, then how do you handle passenger lists and emergency contact information? What about long distance telephone billing information? Transnational satellite comm services? If this stupidity were actually enforced, international commerce would be dead within a week, followed by the EU economy.
If this insanity actually grows legs, expect the NSA to identify where EUians are leaking "valuable" private data to "rogue"countries and then sue on their behalf. Backlash is a dish the alphabet soup agencies know how to serve.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
