One can have a material impact on people's security, and thus everything from financial stability to physical safety. The other results in some companies making less money via advertising than they otherwise would have.

Both involve money, but let's not pretend that the more money involved, the more important something is.

A company being driven out of business by advertising practices, having to let their employees go, and merely hope they can find new jobs, certainly impacts their financial stability, and likely their physical safety.