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Re:FBI's Use of Paid Best Buy Informants Goes Deeper Than We... by cryptonector on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @01:08AM (#16534582)
There is generally an obligation to report child pornography, child sex abuse, and so on. Absolutely, and rightly so.

There is no obligation to search. But if you consented to a technically-unnecessary search and the tech has an incentive to do that search...

The only real question is whether the techs here were government actors. If the government pays them for the actions that nets them the evidence needed to convict, then I'd say the tech is a government actor indeed.

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Re:FBI's Use of Paid Best Buy Informants Goes Deeper Than We... by conmarap on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @11:34AM (#16537515)
People still get "compensated" for reporting to the authorities a sighting of a [wanted] criminal, so long that it leads to the capture of said criminal. This could be a similar case. If the device was turned in for a hard drive migration, for instance, and the employees stumbled upon this nightmarish content, I see nothing wrong with them (the employees) reporting it to the authorities. As a result, the authorities could have paid them [individually] a bounty.
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