I feel the EU has both good privacy things (GDPR was a good step forward, not perfect, but arguably good, forcing things like the right to be forgotten), and then they have these widely anti privacy ideas like the ones presented in this article.
Why the disconnect? That's my fundamental question.
Different political forces with different goals, and GDPR, targeting businesses, isn't fundamentally something the "more state surveillance" group had to prevent, even if they wouldn't have introduced it themselves.
And the pro-surveillance push sadly is fairly endless, see also countries trying to introduce general recording of internet metadata despite the EU top court repeatedly having made clear that that's not going to be a thing that survives a legal challenge.
Why the disconnect? That's my fundamental question.