Britain, Australia, and Canada love massive government overreach for some reason. America seems to have escaped it by having a culture of just hating government in general.

I will say the EUs love affair with it is somewhat new (last 10-15 years or so).

Political/issue opportunism. One so-called "democracy" implementing one civilian-harmful garbage policy makes it that much easier for another to emulate it.

Guaranteed this is the next move they'll try in Australia too.