Information is today's gold. Advertisers love information. If they can target their products to those that are most likely to buy, it increases profits and decreases cost. Criminals love information. Crime fighting organizations love information.
Business loves information.
Credit history - anybody can check your history and credit expenditures without you knowing . Always a public record to reveal your weaknesses. Read a spammed E-Mail I got. Phone records - not really available publicly, yet . Just this month the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals opened a door to a possible new source of privacy invasion.