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.
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