What countries do you mean? Because in Russia you are in almost no danger for leaking data. For example:
On April 21, the food delivery service was fined 60 thousand rubles. for the leakage of personal data of 58 thousand users. Names, phone numbers, addresses, intercom codes and the amount of customer spending over the past six months have been made publicly available. Among them were members of the special services.
https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5492583For reference: 60 000 rubles at that time was approximately equivalent to $1000.
In Russia, on the contrary, there are big problems with this. Almost any person's data is already on the darknet
With politics in Russia, I really don't believe that their government and related agencies have respect to handle their citizen personal data carefully and secretly. They can get such data any time, leak it any time or destroy it too. I even don't need your example to know that things for privacy are bad in Russia.
Citizens are not bad but the government is bad and they cause a lot of big problem for their citizens.
Because the BRICS nations have better data protection laws than the US, most private websites are hosted outside of US jurisdictions, at least in my experience.
Do you have any information source and link to share, to prove that it is true?