Regulations are principally a vehicle for these very sort of intrusive behaviors, given that their main effects are to create barriers to entry that entrench established business models and block competition, create a nexus of effectively legalized collusion between entrenched oligopolists in a given market, via influencing regulation, and replace general common-law liability with rules that can be manipulated by industry players. This pattern is found throughout the regulatory landscape.
Without regulations, billion dollar, multi continent countries can do as they want because their owners, citizens, etc arn't considered targets even when they make these decisions in concert if not in colusion, if not in conspiracy.