TBF, it's not just those in power; there are differences between nations (in terms of both culture and rights perceptions), and a lot of policies like these have popular support as well.

From the American point of view, the entire EU has bought into something very heavy-handed in terms of the GDPR, but IIUC the GDPR is pretty popular in the UK (though full compliance with it technically requires one not even run a default-configured Apache server).