That is not what this is about!
The german government is just as subject to GDPR and needs to defend data collection just as much, if not more so due to its position – the Bundesverfassungsgericht (the german supreme court) is regularly asked to review governmental overreaches of all kinds and very often mandates changes in the interest of citizens, consumers, minority parties and sometimes businesses.
And in the new, current government the two biggest of the three coalition partners (social democrats and greens) have a pretty good record of civic rights advocacy and even the smallest partner FDP is mostly libertarian with a focus on individual freedoms, just with a significant pro-corporate bent at the same time.