FBI Used Best Buy’s Geek Squad To Increase Secret Public Surveillance
http://www.ocweekly.com/news/fbi-used-best-buys-geek-squad-to-increase-secret-public-surveillance-7950030
Thoughts:
1) They shouldn’t be able to circumvent the Fourth Amendment like that.
2) It’s a conflict of interest to pay informants to rat people out who are presumably even less computer savvy than they, when what’s to stop them from putting the child porn or whatever contraband date there in the first place in some way that the planting is hard or impossible to detect? They could create the crime, then get paid for “reporting” it.
3) If the best the FBI can find to team up with are the Drooling Dork Squad, that’s pretty sad.