The EU's position on privacy seems pretty consistent to me - they're against your data being monetized by private entities but not against building governmental tools to monitor private entities.

In good faith this could be summarized as "Personal data should be used for public safety but not for profit" - but that philosophy is definitely a strong contrast with the basic American philosophy towards civil liberties.

> basic American philosophy towards civil liberties.

Errrr, america does not look like country that cares about that. It does care about liberties of rich companies tho.