I am German but I've heard of all of your stated cases; whistleblowers, wikileaks, DNC... It was in the media all the time. In Germany, we are having the same kind of corruption. We for example have the BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst) that, due to certain laws, wasn't allowed to spy on the citizens so they just went to the American NSA and bought the data of German citizens.
The privacy of millions is being scammed but the only thing we are interested in is "who wins the world cup" or what will happen in the next episode of Game of Thrones".