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20 Oct 2023

We caught technicians at Best Buy, Mobile Klinik, Canada Computers and others snooping on our personal devices

Author: admintech | Filed under: Finance/ Money
A screencapture of a desktop with the images folder open. The images folder is filled with neck-down selfies of a woman in various bikinis.

CBC’s Marketplace took smartphones and laptops to tech repair stores across Ontario — including large chains Best Buy and Mobile Klinik in a snooping test — and found that in more than half of the documented cases, technicians accessed intimate photos and private information not relevant to the repair.