They’re basically just poo-pooing the ideas of privacy and security, no more than “the government and corporations need access to everything you do because someone somewhere is doing bad things.”
It’s the same idea as “encryption bad because terrorists,” and “gun company bad because murders,” some people blame the people doing the bad thing, and some people blame the tool used or who created it.
Well technically, mushrooms are illegal (not that they should be), and I bet that technically counts as falsifying police reports or some similar charge, and even if mushrooms were legal this is technically “public intoxication,” so like, they were committing some crime, but yeah.