News like this further make the case that the GPRD is mainly protectionist legislation that mainly benefits EU corporations. The EU doesn’t really care about the privacy of their citizens regardless of the virtue signaling.
EU is a large union of 27 countries. France is having a big authoritarian turn that started after the 2015 terror attacks, and it accelerated under Macron.
That law would certainly not pass in the majority of EU countries.
Additionally, even though I believe this law is terrible, you can't compare a for profit company collecting information on ALL its users, and a police service collecting information on a few thousands people after a judge allowed them to.
I'm not entirely sure about that. If data is legally collected by a company, who's to say the government can't legally purchase it for their own ends?
More info here: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/r...
Even for a specific purpose and specified people, approved by a judge?
As usual these laws start by being applicable to only terrorists, to make it easy to pass, and then years later their scope is extended...