{"id":32111,"date":"2018-03-06T18:51:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T23:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32111"},"modified":"2018-03-07T08:01:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T13:01:34","slug":"gizmodo-fbis-use-of-paid-best-buy-informants-goes-deeper-than-we-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=32111","title":{"rendered":"Gizmodo: FBI&#8217;s Use of Paid Best Buy Informants Goes Deeper Than We Knew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gizmodo: <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/fbis-use-of-paid-best-buy-informants-goes-deeper-than-w-1823561496\">FBI&#8217;s Use of Paid Best Buy Informants Goes Deeper Than We Knew<\/a> by Dell Cameron:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Questions were raised last year about whether FBI agents were actively recruiting technicians at Best Buy\u2019s Geek Squad to search for illegal content on customer devices. According to newly released documents, however, prior reports only scratched the surface: Best Buy\u2019s ties with the FBI appear more complex than once surmised.<\/p>\n<p>The existence of the Geek Squad informants was first revealed via the prosecution of a California doctor named Mark Rettenmaier. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See also Endganet: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2018\/03\/07\/eff-geek-squad-fbi-relationship\/\">EFF: Geek Squad has been working with the FBI for a decade<\/a> by Mariella Moon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gizmodo: FBI&#8217;s Use of Paid Best Buy Informants Goes Deeper Than We Knew by Dell Cameron:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-private-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32119,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32111\/revisions\/32119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}