Really? You dont understand how Chinese, N. Koreans, and Russian governments can use an American citizens data to blackmail them?
Please point me to one instance of the US government blackmailing one of its own citizens or point me to an action that is comparably damaging.
> COINTELPRO (1956–1971) was a series of covert, and at times illegal,[1][2] projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic political organizations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_suicide_lette...
> The letter does not specify precisely what action it is urging King to undertake; King understood the letter as advocating that he commit suicide, ...