>Agreed one is obviously better than the other. The EU treats privacy as a privilege granted by the government while the US treats it as a fundamental right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_privacy

https://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/righto...

There is no express constitutional right to generalized "privacy" in the USA and even if there were, the constitution only binds the government, which is allowed to buy data on American citizens collected by 3rd parties.