Maybe he wanted to make sure a lot of copies of the evidence were floating around. Surveillance capitalism is like a free unlimited backup service you can't restore from.

Yeah, he seems confused to me. Well meaning, but not so consistent.

What is good is that he is a wrench, that throws itself in the works repeatedly. This is a healthy thing to have.

I was on a consultant-assignment at a company that got raided by the police in the EU. The police was extremely careful not to scan any data that where stored on US-servers. The company used Google for mail and file storage, so all computers had to be taken offline before they could scan them.

While I don't doubt they have a way of getting permission to access that data, I don't think they will put in the effort unless you're a relally big fish.

On device recording, so at least the illusion of privacy.

Lol, yes.

He describe himself as an anarcho capitalist so I guess, ideologically, it is government surveillance that he is concerned with and that the free market will sort out the rest.