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Critically, they want access for for free.

The US does not have to give anything in return to get all the private data from EU they want.

The EU in return gets...nothing.

If you are a politician this is not a great position, you get no money, no jobs and no data.

If they equalize data access, "data sharing" (on an intelligence and on a commerical level) could be a valuable component of future negotiations.



> The EU in return gets...nothing.

The EU gets the services they use....


Of course the users do (and pay for it)

However from a political standpoint that's as good as nothing.




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