Posted on 06/01/2017 9:53:54 AM PDT by bamahead
But what happens if they expand this 'training' to look at your digital music + movie files, personal pictures, or other content for violations of the DMCA, or whatever charge they feel like shopping for?
Slippery slope.
Child porn is one thing but you can bet they’re sending everything to the feds. Need a computer repair? Do it yourself or use it for target practice and buy a new one. Even so, “they” will be snooping on your every click.
Here’s a big Howdy! to the guy behind the screen. Long time no wave but haven’t forgotten about you.
The dirty secret is, Best Buy will go through anybody’s files whether they need to or not. Common practice for these “geeks” to swipe pictures, videos, and music.
If you use Best Buy to work on your equipment expect NO PRIVACY whatsoever.
Notice how their suing the “Trump Justice Department”?
Please show me the directive given by the Trump Admiration to the Justice Department to start this program within a month of him being sworn in and without a sitting AG?
I don’t know why Sessions doesn’t release all of the these documents immediately for all of these lawsuits against the DOJ. This would show that all of these actions were either directed by Obama Administration officials, or undertaken without proper authorization, or started by a prior administration.
I get spam, like maybe 5 a day. I never open it but the titles are similar to “Teens with bigco..” Sexy neighbor is hot for you or Cougars seeking yada yada yada, They send them to me with two words connected as one so I can’t block. All of it goes to spam. Should I be worried? Should I just change my e-mail? Even if I change will this crap still be sent to me? What to do?
Yep, the dude behind the screen is still here. Froze me out for 10 minutes.
I use an email client which is entirely online. If I want something to be downloaded onto the hard drive I have to do that manually.
I don’t do it much because my little tablet doesn’t have much memory.
Change it hushmail.com
How legal is it for the FBI to use U.S. citizens to search for this stuff? Whatever happened to the chain of evidence? Whose to say one of those Geek Squad spies didn’t put it there just to look lke a hero?
According to the article: "The relationship between the FBI and Best Buy came to light in the criminal case of U.S. v. Rettenmaier." Also: "Dr. Mark Rettenmaier, a Newport Beach, California obstetrics and gynecology specialist, is charged with knowingly possessing child pornography after Geek Squad employees reported to authorities that they allegedly found an illicit image during repairs of his computer in 2011."
They can try to claim it started under President Trump, but as usual, they would be liars. I wonder when this actually started. Probably once Bambi got in office. He should be known as The Snooping President.
Absolutely
My friend worked at Best Buy before Obama took office, this was going on before 2009.
Best Buy geeks also push the Russian Virus software called Kaspersky...
And I would also expect that somebody in the Geek Squad probably has some kind of confidentiality agreement with their employer, to avoid having any corporate liability if stuff started showing up in unintended hands. Besides, getting paid by another party would be moonlighting. Wouldn't Best Buy want some kind of relief from lawsuits in this situation? (Unless, of course, Best Buy was in on it.)
Around 2000-2001 I got a lot of sexusal and non-sexual spam. Now my spam is almost all right wing and left wing political appeals for money.
I have a long standing policy that politics gets my time, but not my money. I just got an email from my County GOP that I can’t be a Republican, and certainly not part of the County GOP unless I send their private club money. Even if my policy were to do money in politics, I’m not sure I would send it to the buffoons that run my county organization.
Terror, error, tomato, tomahto.
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