Everyone does to a certain degree. It's tough to function in today's society without submitting to at least some humiliation tests.
I am not very familiar with this case, however, governments often create these types of cases.
E.g. Pavel Durov from Telegram flying to France to get jailed, seemed suspicious as fuck. Wouldn't be surprised if he's part of the club and was made an example of to scare privacy-enjoying developers.
Similar to how Edward Snowden (Booz Allen Hamilton employee) allegedly downloaded a secret service database onto a flash memory. This doesn't work in the real world. Everything is on a need-to-know basis. The moment you query a database (assuming you have access), systems already know. So he was most likely used for a controlled blowing of the whistle on certain programs that were going to come out anyway.
Most of the time you are presented with wrong answers only.