Yes it does. The whole idea that grassroots organizations and - gasp - actual voters are behind the DPD and later the GDPR is something that some people have problems with, they would prefer it if the EU government was playing some shady protectionist game rather than to work on behalf of EU citizens, who very much appreciate them standing up to big telcos and big tech.

Google is so afraid of the EU legislators that they have literally plastered the whole of Brussels Airport ('Zaventem' for the locals) with wall to wall ads on how fantastically pro-end-user privacy they are. It's comical.