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by tchaffee 1129 days ago
That's entirely untrue. Countries in the EU had strong privacy laws before the EU existed. And before the internet existed. Mostly around phone companies, but not only. Having lived in a few countries in the EU I can also anecdotely say that privacy laws are generally liked.

GDPR laws are so popular that 17 countries outside the EU already have similar laws.