There are also constitutional barriers to lie under oath, e.g. about spying and collecting data on US citizens, but those barriers seem very ineffective (I'm talking about the 2013 congressional hearing involving James Clapper).

I see no clear indicator that the situation has improved since.

As a US citizen, I have to say that you are completely mistaken. The US is a privacy hellscape.

Last I checked the US isn't trying to force legal backdoors into encryption which puts it firmly above the EU.

Source: US citizen which gives me special knowledge

Because US already has it. Did everyone forgot about Snowden? They have the ability and they are actively using it for at least the past 12 years. There is a reason that every major cloud provider is building a European sovereign cloud now, because US services are not trusted.