Comment by permo-w

your ideas are contradictory:

>If the EU would actually enforce GDPR it would be amazing

>The EU should not focus on privacy laws any further

and not to be advdersarial, but they do enforce GDPR. have a look at the enforcement tracker and sort by Fine:

https://www.enforcementtracker.com/

TLDR: less than 2 months ago, Meta - one of those de facto public utilities you're describing - was fined 1.2 Billion Euros for GDPR breaches. they and Amazon have previously been fined hundreds of millions