Uber Tries to Remotely Encrypt Corporate Data During Government Raid

wow, this clearly is criminal behavior from Uber HQ. Instead of fully complying with the investigation and using legal means to contest it they are behaving like a bunch of pedophiles trying to encrypt their hard drives so the police cannot get to their kiddy porn stash, despicable...

edit: obviously i'm not against data encryption it's just funny how encryption is used in this case to obstruct justice, article in French, obviously but the headings are saying something like this :

    SF Uber engineers attempted to remotely encrypt the 
    data of Uber Canada computers during a search at Uber 
    Canada headquarters led by the Québec IRS in Montréal
    last week.

    Search at Uber Canada's office

    Last May 14, dozens of investigators from "Revenue Québec"
    proceeded in searching computers at Uber Canadas's office, 
    on Notre-Dame street. Investigators were looking for evidence
    showing that Uber Canada is violating tax laws

    Around 10:40 am, one of the investigators noticed 
    that "some handsets, computers and tablets 
    were remotely turned on" during the search. Another 
    female investigator, who was performing a second  
    search warrant in another office, noticed the 
    same exact phenomenon, also at 10:40 am."computers      
    were being remotely accessed and manipulated, we took 
    control of them then turned them down given the    
    emergency and the high risk of remote data
    manipulation", can be read in the case made by judge   
    Jean-Pierre Braun

(work in progress)

If the devices were encrypted beforehand, would that even help?

I wonder if these actions could be legitimized by Uber claiming that they were merely trying to protect user data.

Obstruction of justice might be punished less harshly than whatever the data they were encrypting implicates them in.

Generally the best legal strategy is to not do anything illegal, but sometimes that window has already closed ;)

Is there any particular reason you chose pedophiles as the architypical information criminal?

>Investigators are looking for evidence to demonstrate Uber Canada is violating the tax law by not collecting GST and QST on behalf of its drivers to UberX.

For those who don't want to google translate. Further down it says that this is one of those things Uber doesn't think it has to do because it's an app, not an employer. Quebec seems to disagree and be willing to follow up.