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Report: Best Buy’s “Geek Squad” Was a Front for FBI Domestic Surveillance Increase

ByGuest Post March 11, 2017March 11, 2017

LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck I have never liked or trust Geek Squad. Their customer service ratings were often full of reviews by customers who felt violated by overly snoopy (and sometimes, even thieving) technicians. Now, there is an explanation for why these intrusive tactics occurred: Geek Squad was at times…

FBI Is Allegedly Paying Geek Squad To Find Customer Child Porn

ByGuest Post January 11, 2017

By Eric Lieberman Geek Squad technicians at a Best Buy repair shop in Kentucky have reportedly been receiving payments from the FBI after they hand over signs of child pornography on customer computers. When the IT workers are tasked with recovering lost data from clients’ devices, they occasionally stumble upon illegal pornographic content that includes minors. The…