Which is mightily funny because in the opening paragraph the article equates "anti-free movement" with "problematic baggage". It's a problem if people can't move freely in and out of Europe, but not data -- that's our red line!
Would you also support free movement of all the valuables in your bank vault?
Article is OK with people moving uncontrolled in/out/around Europe. Article is NOT OK with data moving uncontrolled in/out/around Europe.
It's stupid. It's quintessential luxury belief thinking.
The article supposes that there exists people that fear their data being misused but don't fear their taxes being misused on welfare for a random population of benefit seekers.
The article would have been better without the self-own "problematic baggage" language.
Just ask yourself who would be doing the misuse to see that this comparison makes no sense.