Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Records indicate ties between FBI and Best Buy Geek Squad

Court records in an ongoing case in California claim that the FBI paid Best Buy computer technicians to ferret out child pornography on customer's computers. The Washington Post reports the relationship between the FBI and Best Buy may be more extensive than either admits.

The allegations are made by lawyers for a California doctor charged with possessing child pornography, after the doctor took his computer to a Best Buy store for repair. Computers which require data recovery are typically sent from Best Buy stores around the country to a central Geek Squad City facility in Brooks, Ky., and customers consent to having their computers searched — and turned over to authorities if child porn is found.While there is no question that Geek Squad technicians have notified authorities after finding child porn, the new court documents assert that there is a deeper relationship than has previously been revealed between the company and federal authorities. The court is now considering the extent of that relationship and whether it is grounds to throw out a pending child porn case, though it could also have ramifications for the dozens of cases which originate from the Kentucky facility annually.

Read more in  the Washington Post online.


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