On the other hand, the proliferation of hacking and fraud could drive a swing to the opposite direction. It's got to the point where being hacked, blackmailed,

On the other hand, the proliferation of hacking and fraud could drive a swing to the opposite direction. It's got to the point where being hacked, blackmailed, or being the target of fraud is a regular occurrence, and a lot of that is driven by hackers having easy access to private data which lends plausibility to emails or text messages. When you get to the point where judges and lawmakers have, more likely than not, personal experience of threatening emails containing private information, there's a lot of incentive to reduce the amount of data collection - and correspondingly, a lot of popular support for the idea.