Posted on 08/14/2013 11:42:46 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
Not Best Buy. I mean Nicole March
Hmmm .. I dunno ... need more proof.
Butterface...
More than one tech site has caught Best Buy/Geek Squad in the act of sifting through personal data and copying that which they should not access, often via the USB key that contains anti-malware utilities. No shock that beach/bikini photos were popular with them.
The tech sites simply ran a video capture program in the background and caught them red-handed.
The Geek Squad concept is cute for about 2 seconds until you realize the creeps they’ve hired would still be creeps without the white ties and black shirts. Giving them access to one’s data is a mistake.
Seems to me her photos on her computer are her property.
lol
YOU were not “devastated and humiliated” to take the pictures and use them in a school project?? That is PUBLIC isn’t it?
Sorry, not exactly “private”.
I remember when the cheerleaders at my university convinced me to take off my clothes because they were all in an art class. I fell for their little trick....ten or twelve times.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
uhhhh....Miss March.....
WHY DO YOU THINK THEY CALL IT THE GEEK SQUAD???????????
Seems to me her photos on her computer are her property.
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No argument there. And I would even argue that Best Buy was wrong and she should win her lawsuit.
If I were on the jury - I’d award her the sum of One Dollar.
If I were on the jury - Id award her the sum of One Dollar.
Interesting. Now imagine that you also kept copies of your SS card, tax returns and birth certs on your computer and they lifted and posted that on the internet?
Did they or did they not steel personal property. The courts recognize personal property in copyright laws.
I would award about $100K... for damages and punitive.
Really?
You equate some bimbo posting nude pics of herself with SS records, tax records and birth “certs”?
Ohhhh-Kayyyy then.
It's a property issue. Was the property stolen or wasn't it? If so, a crime was committed. The crime can be litigated in civil court since the statute of limitations has expired legally. The sticky part is... what damages is the criminal liable for?
I expect, being the intelligent, wise and respectful FReeper that you are, you cannot relate to storing nude photos of yourself on your computer. But I would expect there are some things on that machine you would not want to be distributed for any multitude of logical reasons. I simply used an analogy that someone as sophisticated as you might better relate too.
Does that help explain the analogy I used to point out the significance of "property" being stolen?
From what ones I see at BB, I am glad I was never one. I saw them push a lot of high pressure sales for overpriced service work.
I agree.
I don’t worry about my nude pictures getting out on the internet BECAUSE THERE AREN’T ANY!!!
Amazing how that works, isn’t it?
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I did not read that she posted them, I read that they were stolen off of her computer.
She should have smashed the hard drive with a sledge hammer instead of handing it over to the Geeks.
She did not post the pics of herself on the internet. The Geek Squad tech took files that were hers from her computer and posted them on the Internet without her permission. It doesn’t matter what the contents of the files were. The tech could have just as easily stolen tax records with her SSN and sold them to identity thieves. They could have taken private emails and posted them online for their entertainment. The point is, it’s wrong no matter what was taken.
I expect, being the intelligent, wise and respectful FReeper that you are....
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Hah! You must not know me very well. Ask anyone - even my friends.
I get your point. But “property” as you call it has a value. To place a 100,000 dollar value on nude pics being stolen is ludicrous.
I think your verdict is premature.
Withholding judgement until more evidence surfaces.
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