Geek Squad [Best Buy] was/is doing FBI dirty work in customer's computers

The FBI had previously acknowledged a program that paid Best Buy employees $500 for tips about child pornography. Even that arrangement was alarming from a civil liberties and privacy perspective, but it was apparently only the tip of the iceberg. OC Weekly’s R. Scott Moxley characterizes the more extensive program shown in the new filings as an effort “to sidestep the U.S. Constitution’s prohibition against warrantless invasions of private property.”

In January, the FBI testified against Dr. Mark Albert Rettenmaier, 62, a gynecological oncologist, facing child pornography charges after Geek Squad technicians supposedly located an image of a young naked girl on his computer in 2011. The image was discovered in a section of Rettenmaier’s hard drive where deleted files are stored when he brought it to a Best Buy store for repairs.

Less than fifty per cent.

Seems like a perfect match - the "repairers" and those motivated to know what's inside someone's computer, but I would not have thought of it. Certain minds run certain ways, no?

So the article of from March 2017 and they state that this is all according to anonymous "Confidential Human Sources".

FAIL

Why, Juan, you are so speedy! I barely finished the intro when you hit the space! LOL

How about, AC fail, you read the article? Look a little smarter that way.

James Riddet, Rettenmaier’s defense lawyer, claims “the FBI was dealing with a paid agent inside the Geek Squad who was used for the specific purpose of searching clients’ computers for child pornography and other contraband or evidence of crimes,” according to a court filing obtained by the Los Angeles Times.

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Here's more.

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Child pornography would be the easy subject to start - get Geek Squad employees all fired up and ready to catch the scumbags, then begin to ask a little more - what about guns? What about white supremacists? Etc etc etc

Another AC fail, apparently unable to read an article - just trolling to show his behind. LOL Love the crazy people we find on here.

I file this under the stupid criminal category. Anyone dropping off computers at the best buy is borderline retarded to start with. A criminal dropping off computers there is a couple of steps lower. Maybe at the drooling idiot stage.

Have to agree with you. I don't actually leave my computer anywhere, unless I send it to the friend in another state who built it for me.

Taking it to a business and leaving it, or inviting strangers into my home - not happening. That's just not common sense.