{"id":2588,"date":"2018-03-28T13:44:36","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T17:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/?p=1565823"},"modified":"2018-03-28T15:43:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T19:43:10","slug":"ive-been-wrong-but-this-feels-right-blackberry-ceos-bet-on-security-pays-off-in-privacy-scandal-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/03\/28\/ive-been-wrong-but-this-feels-right-blackberry-ceos-bet-on-security-pays-off-in-privacy-scandal-age\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019ve been wrong, but this feels right\u2019: BlackBerry CEO\u2019s bet on security pays off in privacy scandal age"},"content":{"rendered":"

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BlackBerry Ltd. chief executive John Chen stops short of saying \u201cI told you so\u201d in the aftermath of Facebook Inc.\u2019s privacy scandal over its data being harvested for use in the U.S. election, but just barely.<\/p>\n

\u201cI told my daughters all the time, \u2018Don\u2019t put all this stuff on your Facebook,\u2019\u201d he said. He complained so much about their picture-posting habit that they unfriended him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey say, What\u2019s the harm? Well, when you turn on location there are certain elements of privacy you give up. Maybe it\u2019s not a big deal, but it\u2019s a certain amount of privacy,\u201d Chen said in a wide-ranging interview in Ottawa in March.<\/p>\n

Chen, 62, might sound like a typical paranoid dad worried his three millennial daughters\u2019 vacation pictures could alert thieves to their empty homes. But he\u2019s banking on his belief in the importance of privacy and security. After all, BlackBerry\u2019s future depends on his ability to sell its products as the go-to digital security guard for everything from mobile phones to connected cars.<\/p>\n