The list of silly things the General Data Protection Regulation gets blamed for expanded melodramatically this week with a paper that blames it for constricting “innovation” based on – facepalm – a drop in the number of apps available on the Google Play Store since the GDPR’s 2018 implementation.

Yes, the Google Play Store, long-recognised as a problematical malware and privacy-compromising Android app haven, provided by the company that itself leads all others in offering data-harvesting mobile apps under its massive Alphabet-parent umbrella. Many of those then sell your data to third parties.