This is a major reason as to why I am so strongly against all this verification shit governments keep trying to push, the best way to keep data secure is not to have it in the first place, therefore my personal data should not leave my device except in the strictest of circumstances for things like my name/DOB/address/SSN.

It's the age of the leak and the sooner we accept, no matter our efforts, we live in a security free world and design around that - the better

„Small, not harmful leak of non important data, few records only”

Google selling data? So far no one came to blackmail me for certain dispositions, while the other does as they want, IRS, foreign governments, social security whatever.

Google can be sued while the other gives itself a pass.

Who is the baddie?

In Germany the administration put massive duties on IT providers and added punitive damage as a looming consequence.

Fast forward and the government with its “Ha, we are so digital!” and “Europe is better than US in CS!” suddenly has to swallow some brutal medicine I guess.

I stick to my guns: Silicon Valley and especially Google is art regarding code and CS evolution. Same for FAANG etc.

EU is hubris to say the least.

Every time someone says “Let’s build our own Google/Cloud/…” a penguin dies.

E Invoice will be a brutal boomerang, XRechnung the greatest backdoor of all times.

Your data, time to shift everything into the EU.

There will be zero risks to you of course, because their software is magically perfect, unlike any other software created in the history of mankind.