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.

  • meant2live218@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Sorry, that’s my bad. When I see something that looks like a request for information, I try my best to answer it. Even if you personally don’t find it useful, someone else in a similar position but different perspective on learning might be interested. Sorry, hope you have a good day!

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      1 year ago

      I never requested information, I simply made a couple statements about my lack of tech literacy. If I wanted to learn, I would have done so years ago.

      This is why commenting on lemmy sucks.

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          1 year ago

          Aaaand more of the same. You are irrelevant to me, as are your opinions.

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            1 year ago

            Then why are you responding?

            You know what you’re doing is wrong and to be an adult, you have to be better than devolving into a willfully ignorant troglodyte angry at other people for calling you out on it. If you feel bad, you should feel bad. You should feel bad about what you’re doing regardless.

            But I bet you’re going to respond that you don’t feel bad at all, and try to thumb your nose at us because this is about saving face for you and not the truth, and let me tell you: it’s not going to happen.

            It’s morally wrong to not want to learn, especially about technology. It is too powerful and too dangerous to be in the hands of the likes of you.

            Grow. Up.

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                Lol sure, okay boomer, send some of those money stacks our way if you’re going to waste our time trying to grandstand on the internet.

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                    1 year ago

                    And I’m a robot from the future sent to help mankind only to be left disappointed at their primitive need to fight over territory and assert dominance. What’s it to you?

                    Or perhaps I’m a bowling ball dreaming I’m a plate of sashimi.

                    Either way, you need to do what I told you to do and Grow. Up. Read a book, you old piece of shit.