Right, have to agree with you, bob3160, but often the public also is against it, see this quote from wikepedia:
On March 11, 2015, Intelligence Squared US, an organization that stages Oxford-style debates, held an event centered on the question, "Should the U.S. adopt the 'Right to be Forgotten' online?" The side against the motion won with a 56% majority of the voting audience.[18]
Also do not overestimate EU based privacy protection. It is rather selective. And we rapidly entering a global perspective, where big corp and lobbyist will take your last shreds of privacy away at least when it serves their interests best. Also politically correct bias is slowly changing the feeling of relative freedom of speech in the countries you once counted to belong to the old founding nations of the realms at the other side of the big fishing pond.
When we come to live in a world where we eat the same chickenburgers, where latto machiatto comes served in the same lid-containers, it is very likely our privacy gonna be treated in a similar way on either side of the ocean, only accents may differ. We have neighbours, you have neigbors. We have colours, you colors. But a spade's still a spade, and let's call a spade a spade.
Here in the Netherlands for instance we have Amsterdam & Rotterdam,
and lots of Americans found they like the modern looks of Rotterdam very much.
polonus