It's so primitive that laws can be proposed without any proper numeric estimate of their possible impact. How many Europeans would be ok with a draconian surveillance mechanism if they knew we would be preventing only a handful of abuses?
I wouldn't be okay with a draconian surveillance mechanism even if it literally righted every wrong in the world.
The same happened with laws instituting vaccine passports (at least in France). They were not backed by any projection of the number of hospitalizations avoided or lives saved.