> We sleep-walked into a society where the expectation is that any and all data is scooped up and sent off remotely without adequate controls and I think it's great that the EU GDPR is making people wake up to the scale of it.

Government intelligence organizations like the NSA and foreign equivalents will now have a monopoly on unsolicited data collection. Which, combined with selective enforcement to prevent disruption of gov cartels, is one of the few reasons it went through.