Unsealed Records Show Details of Secret Warrantless Spying By Best Buy’s Geek Squad On Behalf of the FBI

The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the US’ so-called “Justice Department” for more information regarding the FBI’s training and use of Best Buy Geek Squad employees to secretly spy on unsuspecting customers.

Earlier this year we were alerted to some unsealed records showing how Best Buy’s Geek Squad employees were being trained and paid by the FBI to illegally dig through the computers that were brought in for repair, looking for information that about possible illegal activities that could then be passed over to the FBI for further investigation.

Now we may learn more about the Obama administration’s love for illegally spying on average everyday law-abiding Americans, using every underhanded and corrupt method available to him, and the illegal activities of the out-of-control FBI and other so-called “intelligence agencies”.

“The public has a right to know how the FBI uses computer repair technicians to carry out searches the agents themselves cannot do without a warrant”

In the big scheme of crimes committed by the corrupt anti-American terrorist friendly Obama administration, this is pretty small deal, but it is just one more way that Obama thumbed his nose at the laws of our nation to do whatever the fuck he wanted, no matter how illegal and wrong.

Obama and the Democrats knew that with the help of the corrupt libtard sucking media, and criminals in our “intelligence agencies”, they could cover-up their crimes enough to keep them out of prison.

And it worked… so far..

The Justice Department was sued Wednesday by a privacy group seeking information on the FBI recruitment of Best Buy employees to search consumer computers for child pornography during repairs — a practice that came to light in court documents in a recent case in Santa Ana, California.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Trump administration’s Justice Department, demanding access to records about any FBI training and payment to Geek Squad workers to search customer computers without a court warrant.

At issue isn’t the criminality of child pornography or efforts to stop the exploitation of children by sexual predators. EFF is concerned that the FBI may be violating the constitutional requirement that law enforcement agencies obtain judge-approved search warrants, based on evidence there is probable cause of a crime, to search computers.

“Informants who are trained, directed, and paid by the FBI to conduct searches for the agency are acting as government agents,” EFF civil liberties director David Greene said in a written statement. “The FBI cannot bypass the Constitution’s warrant requirement by having its informants search people’s computers at its direction and command.”

The San Francisco-based nonprofit privacy group sued the Justice Department after it refused a request for documents about how the FBI recruits, trains and pays Best Buy workers to find illegal child pornography on customer computers sent to Best Buy for repairs.

“The public has a right to know how the FBI uses computer repair technicians to carry out searches the agents themselves cannot do without a warrant,” EFF senior counsel David Sobel said in a statement. “People authorize Best Buy employees to fix their computers, not conduct unconstitutional searches on the FBI’s behalf.”

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