Your information on tax is very out of date. All the big tech companies pay loads of tax in Ireland now.

And additionally FB were fined 500mn last week by the same regulator.

There are multiple ways EU-based user data can be lawfully transferred to the US, due to the similarities in the bits of the data protection law.

I'm not aware of the similar arrangements being possible with China-based providers.

> Now, I'm still waiting for those watchdogs to fine Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and bazillion other companies over data transfer to the USA.

Why wait when it already happened? Not only are you overly pessimistic, but incorrect as well.

- https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/05/22/us-tech-giant-meta-...

- https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/03/google-analytics-sweden-gd...

- (not a fine, but told to stop transferring) https://www.pymnts.com/cpi-posts/eu-watchdog-orders-european...

Then we have this wonderful website: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ (which currently has 2583 entries)

Facebook has been, Uber as well.

Instead of claiming things without doing 1 minute of research, you could have just checked a GDPR enforcement tracker [1].

If you sort by largest fines, you'll see that Meta, Amazon, TikTok, LinkedIn (Microsoft), Uber, WhatsApp (Meta) and Google have all been fined.

[1]: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/