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Naked Security – Sophos
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Naked Security – Sophos
The life of the corporate desktop team can turn into a legal nightmare quickly if end users haven’t agreed that it’s OK for techs to search their machines, something that has come to light in a California child pornography case involving Best Buy’s Geek Squad.
In that case, Geeks working on a customer laptop found a pornographic picture and turned it over to the FBI, which paid them $ 500 and prosecuted the owner of the machine.
Now the Geeks in question are in hot water because the arrangement with the FBI violates the corporate policies of Best Buy, which runs Geek Squad.
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