> I thought you generally needed a warrant to obtain private information in Europe.
Sadly you thought wrong. Using France as just one example, they allow warrantless wiretaps, require ISPs to forward intercepted traffic (again without a warrant), and whole bunch of other completely unsavoury stuff.
If this was an issue the EU was actually trying to address, you’d quickly find that many member states intelligence collection practices are incompatible with EU privacy laws, along with their intelligence sharing arrangements.
There were reports of possible spying on Merkel but considering Germany then sought entrance into the five eyes (a process currently underway) it seems there is likely a lot more than meets the eye there
> Intelligence sharing has nothing to do with this.
If the issue in contention is US companies being unable to protect against privacy intrusions from the US government, then EU companies being equally unable to protect against privacy intrusions from the US government sounds entirely relevant to me...
Sadly you thought wrong. Using France as just one example, they allow warrantless wiretaps, require ISPs to forward intercepted traffic (again without a warrant), and whole bunch of other completely unsavoury stuff.
https://www.vox.com/2015/11/14/11620670/france-has-a-powerfu...
Anything an EU government collects will also be shared freely with all of its SIGINT allies (including the US).
https://theintercept.com/2018/03/01/nsa-global-surveillance-...
If this was an issue the EU was actually trying to address, you’d quickly find that many member states intelligence collection practices are incompatible with EU privacy laws, along with their intelligence sharing arrangements.