Indeed. This seems to be a question of the EU wanting to copy their dear American friends when it comes to data collection (although they are about 15 years later). I noticed they were asking every single person entering Switzerland from non-Schengen 2 weeks ago, and same thing at flight checkin in Japan the other day as well as in CDG on arrival from non-Schengen. Surely this data can be put into a massive data warehouse where it can sit until deletion one day.

The lady at the LX ORD lounge also seems to like a lot to ask where you are going and why so that she can re-input this same data into the machine as her colleague did 10 minutes prior at the checkin desk

Possibly one of the silliest ideas yet (note: Not Lufthansa Group fault at all- however all the airlines I hope are seriously pushing back on this massive time waster of a non-value add activity).