Thank you for the thoughtful responses! As someone with experience in regulation in the United States it makes sense to me that it is at the regulator's discret

Thank you for the thoughtful responses! As someone with experience in regulation in the United States it makes sense to me that it is at the regulator's discretion to enforce these rules so there will (necessarily) be enforcement of intent, at least for the current regime. (might change in the next one) All that said, it likely can and will be mis-used, and citizens will likely sue and cite the regulation if the regulator refuses to enforce the regulation so if I were Europe, I would try my best to prepare for such an eventuality as part of the law to reduce burden. I don't think it's alarmist to suggest this. I also don't think it is alarmist to suggest that regulators will not always be rational actors, and there are politics at play. It will be interesting to see if any blatant cases of prosecution result from crossing an EU government or leader. Fingers crossed that never happens.