geek squad

New documents show FBI paid Best Buy’s Geek Squad staff to act as informants

March 7th, 2018

Jacob Siegal

New documents released this week have unearthed a shocking discovery about the relationship between the FBI and Best Buy’s Geek Squad repair agents. After filing a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit last year, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was granted access to documents which show that the FBI has paid Geek Squad staffers to …

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Best Buy’s Geek Squad conspired with the FBI to perform warrantless searches of customer devices

March 10th, 2017

Mike Wehner

Letting a company like Best Buy fiddle with your computer in the hopes of fixing a defect or perform a repair is already a huge exercise in trust. You trust that the technician working on your machine won’t go poking around in places he or she has no business in, and that your privacy will …