I can't read the full article, but I would like to remind everyone that this is not the first time the EU has done something like this.

In 2006 the EU passed the Data Retention Directive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Retention_Directive

>According to the Data Retention Directive, EU member states had to store information on all citizens' telecommunications data (phone and internet connections) for a minimum of six months and at most twenty-four months, to be delivered on demand to police authorities.

This was actually law for 8 years until the Court of Justice of the EU found it to be violating fundamental rights and was declared invalid.