Politicians generally don't draft regulations. They decide what to sell and then sell it to the public. Lawyers (bureaucracy, politicians team, industry reps)

Politicians generally don't draft regulations. They decide what to sell and then sell it to the public. Lawyers (bureaucracy, politicians team, industry reps) draft regulations. It is unlikely that the lawyers who drafted GDPR for instance were unaware of possible side effects. Given the enormous amount of legal work in checks and certification that has come out of this for the legal industry, it may even have been intentional.