Data and the use of it is everywhere, in every field of the scientific and nonscientific world. The question is, who has the access to it and the data systems are private or public use purpose. It all has merits too.
In the age of globalisation, people still need to upgrade them with necessary data and only that can be gained by democratization. If not then there would be rise of centralized entity, which in common not a good thing to happen.