When you need to drop off your tech devices for a repair, how confident are you that they won’t be snooped on?
CBC’s Marketplace took smartphones and laptops to repair stores across Ontario — including large chains Best Buy and Mobile Klinik — and found that in more than half of the documented cases, technicians accessed intimate photos and private information not relevant to the repair.
Marketplace dropped off devices at 20 stores, ranging from small independent shops to medium-sized chains to larger national chains, after installing monitoring software on the devices. In total, 16 stores were recorded. (At four stores, the tracking software didn’t log anything, or the stores didn’t appear to turn the devices on.)
Technicians at nine stores accessed private data, including one technician who not only viewed photos but copied them onto a USB key.
What do you mean deprives us of freedoms?
Everyone has a right to lock their bathroom door. Crime might be comitted behind the bathroom door, but usually there will be other evidence of that without looking in the bathroom, so there is no need for the government to legislate that all bathrooms should remove their locks.
No one ever questions the right of locking your bathroom door.
Because the ones who violate our rights the most aren’t tyrannical governments but the people around us. The people who rape us, murder us, commit genocide against us, who commit the most unspeakable of depraved acts with the banality of a zombie in a fucking zombie movie.
And you think that’s okay in the name of stopping a government from turning tyrannical when you knew it was always going to be like that anyway because all governments are inherently authoritarian in nature.