Reading online discussions about the GDPR, it strikes me that people in the US are very much afraid of their govenment and of bad actors using the legal system as a weapon in ways never intended by legislators. Probably with good cause: it's a fact of life, over there.
It feels strange to me, as someone who grew up in a Nordic socialist culture, where the government wasn't an enemy and fellow citizens are mostly not hostile.
It's like looking at Mad Max from Love Actually.