Career politicians and big business do not have your interests at heart, they only have their own. You are merely a disposable asset on their path to self aggrandizement. They need to be pitied really. You've been profiled and that profile could tomorrow see you walking into a gas chamber just because of who you are and what you believe. Neither did the Jews in Germany in the thirties.
Privacy is about self protection plain and simple.
I think people are fed up with being ripped-off, conned and lied to. When you have this option of voting for one liar or another, that doesn't leave much choice. I think folds just don't like what they see. This is about ordinary individuals choosing to take back what is rightfully theirs. Their personal freedom, their dignity, their right to give their money to whom they choose, that kind of thing.