Given the billions western nations sink into “cyber security” you’d think those governments would have done something to make sure all civilian communications are properly encrypted. Instead we’ve got Parliaments writing dumb laws regulating cookie policies.
Those two things are orthogonal. Pervasive online tracking wouldn't be fixed by implementing "proper encryption". Google will still track you, HTTPS or not.
Besides something tells me that the same people who oppose things like the GDPR wouldn't exactly applaud if governments decided to pass a law to make TLS mandatory for instance. I'm sure if that were to happen we'd soon hit semantic satiation for the phrase "regulatory capture" in this very forum.
So what exactly do you propose governments should do to solve this particular problem?
To second this, it's my understanding that Google for instance is a proponent of transport security as it helps prevent middle men (ISP's, etc.) from stripping and replacing ads in transport.
