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BlackBerry CEO says tech firms have duty to co-operate with police John Chen said companies have a duty to be “good corporate citizens” who co-operate with reasonable lawful requests from the police. The comments were in response to a story last week which reported that the RCMP intercepted and decrypted more than a million BlackBerry messages as part of an investigation between 2010 and 2012. The BlackBerry CEO wrote that the world is a “dark place” when companies put their reputations above the greater good >> Learn More…


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