...they were being sued for, "dispatching a technician who allegedly videotaped the client's daughter taking a shower." (more)
The latest claim of 'Geek Sneak Peak' comes from consumerist.com...
"To investigate claims by current and former Geek Squad techies (see "The 10 Page Geek Squad Confession - "Stealing Customers' Nudie Pics Was An Easter Egg Hunt"), we loaded a computer with porn and rigged it to make a video of itself. We captured every cursor movement, every program opened, every file accessed. Everything that the user saw and did, we recorded.
We took it to less than a dozen Best Buy Geek Squads and asked them to perform simple tasks, like installing iTunes. Most places were fine, sometimes doing the job right on the counter, sometimes even for free.
Then we caught one well-seasoned Geek Squad Agent copying personal and pornographic images and video from our computer to his company-issued thumb drive (see video, or the logfiles)."
Moral: USB memory sticks (aka thumb drives) can be dangerous to the health of your computer privacy. Info-theft and compuvoyeurism can occur anytime someone has access to your computer. If you have private file, encrypt them now. ~Kevin
