Two German comments that illustrate what it is about. Adn what it is about, is this: Merkel understands private data to be trading goods and has just blocked the EU from greater pretection of privacy, and Germany is a weak country, unable to defend itself, its interests, even the rule of its laws inside its borders.
LINK: Deutschland ist eine hilflose Weicheirepublik geworden
LINK: Merkel bremst beim Datenschutz in Europe. Amerkanische IT Firmen können ihr Glück kaum fassen.