Your data, someone elses money; and in this case, the money for those who can convince you the most that you are in imminent danger and thats why they need so much more money and media attention and fear mongering government support
The threat is in not dealing with politics before it deals with you, and a good way to do that is seeing "the government" of a democratic nation as something totally separate from a citizen in that nation... instead of getting engaged because it's so messed up, to disengage further because it's so messed up.