Didn’t the passport and cash he carried indicate he was trying to flee to another country?

I don’t think you were making this argument, but I want to highlight that data is not morally neutral. Google Maps drives even less customers to stores that are smaller, and already have difficulty getting customers.

I’m pretty sure that if everything would have been EE2E on Telegram it would never have reached the size and popularity that it has.

I don’t know what you’re saying here because it makes no sense. No one who uses or shills for Telegram thinks lack of EE2E is a good thing, absolutely no one. They use it despite of lack of EE2E (ignorance or ideologically-flavored ignorance).