Companies like Flock and Clearview have set up gigantic dragnets in the US.

I'm not happy with everything the EU does, but to call it useless is to be ignorant of the rest of the world.

It's perfectly sufficient to have laws against that sort of thing. As governments are above the law (in that they can just add new laws that say they can do whatever they want), you need something else. A bill of rights is such a something else.