BlackBerry Hands Over User Data To Help Police 'Kick Ass,' Insider Says (www.cbc.ca)

Reader Dr Caleb writes: A specialized unit inside mobile firm BlackBerry has for years enthusiastically helped intercept user data -- including BBM messages -- to help in hundreds of police investigations in dozens of countries, a CBC News investigation reveals. For instance, citing a number of sources, CBC says that BlackBerry intercepted messages to aid investigators probing the political scandals in Brazil that are dogging suspended President Dilma Rousseff. The company also helped authenticate BBM messages in Major League Baseball's drug investigation that saw New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez suspended in 2014. One document obtained by CBC News reveals how the Waterloo, Ont.-based company handles requests for information and co-operates with foreign law enforcement and government agencies, in stark contrast with many other tech companies. "We were helping law enforcement kick ass," said one person.

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And why is this wrong?

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"We were helping law enforcement kick ass," said one person.

And this is automatically wrong because?..

1. Police aren't doing anything useful
2. We'd be better off without them
3. Their activity is not paid for by taxpayers

Ah, privacy... Well, Blackberry aren't automatically wrong in assisting police investigate genuine wrongdoing any more, than a pizza-guy reporting child-abuse he observed while delivering. The only thing the firm may be accused of is assisting in obviously bogus investigations. Neither the write-up nor TFA make such a claim.