There will always be some inept politician pushing for stuff like this. I am glad for measures like the GDPR and I think the EU is doing more good than harm to its state members.
GDPR is a fantastic piece of legislation, and I agree the EU is doing more good than harm - start with just on a financial level:
The old joke was, that if you set off from the UK with £200 and visited every European country, by the time you got to Istanbul you would have £0, only by exchanging your remaining currency at each border.
Ahhhh, good times doing expenses in those days :-)