Tracking pixels have been a normal part of the email ecosystem for more than 20 years. If an esoteric use of the law was going to stop it it would be done by now.
Tracking pixels have been complained about for a long time too. There are actual real people who have actual real physical problems with being tracked and their law says they have freedom to privacy but it's normally violated.
We should leave Jim Crow voting laws in place because they have been a normal part of the electoral system for 150 years.
This is basically what GDPR is designed to stop.
That’s not reusing old law, that’s a law designed purposely to stop this.