I don't think this is about the current situation in the US.

Big US tech companies are infamous for not following the EU's data protection rules, and they wouldn't even able to, because some US regulations (I think PRISM, FISA and others) are incompatible with the requirements of EU GDPR. This dates back at lest to Snowden leaks and the invalidation of EU-US data protection agreements by Schrems judgments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems#Complaints_with_th...

> But what disappoints me a bit about this moment is (the perhaps inevitable?) response to nationalism with more nationalism.

Unfortunately it is now a question of sovereignty and basic risk management, not nationalism ([0] and multiple other sources).

[0]: https://mspoweruser.com/europe-calls-out-us-tech-after-micro...