How would your proposed solution solve the problem you outline in the first sentence? If the US bans data transfer outside of its jurisdiction then Apple, Microsoft, etc will stop cooperating with secret government data collection programs?
You have no idea.
And the problem is not the spying it self, rather its that one country has all the data mining companies, and has regulations to force these companies to give them data even if its breaks local laws.
And when a truly foreign competitor showed up, guess what? They banned it(huawei) and now they want to ban software too(Tiktok).
Yet they go moaning about data protection laws limiting their companies reach and spying power.
> If only the US could have as little spying as those countries!
They already do, if not more. These countries have local spying power, and foreign teams. While the US almost controls the entire internet, they can spy on anyone anywhere.
If Google sets a self governed license based entity in Europe with staff from Europe(executives including the CEO etc) then you have two separate entities playing by different rules(EU based or U.S based) linked just through a licensing deal. Think of it like Microsoft sells On-premise Azure instalations to governments.
The EU and US entities would share no internal data b/c they would be two different companies that use the same software for different clients.
The official narative is: China bad, America good.
The fact that the majority of OS's and Apps that will spy on you is developed by US companies, does not seem to matter.
This isn’t accurate. The official narrative is that America’s way of life is under threat from China. This is just true. China would say the same thing, and that would be true too.
There is an assumption that most US citizens prefer America to China, also true. Can we assume that most Chinese nationals prefer China to America? Presumably.
If any national or supranational gov(i.e E.U) cares about privacy and security of its citizens it should ban data transfer and data access outside its jurisdiction(i.e require totally separate entity located in each country/jurisdiction). This would be better for taxes and local jobs too.