Technology

I worked for GeekSquad, data privacy violations were not only a fireable offense but also something those I worked with prided themselves on protecting.

This is news to me, and it's commendable regardless of whether it's standard policy for Geek Squad, or just specific to your Best Buy location. At any rate it's good to know the conversation was had within the office.

FBI has been pursuing its mission in bad faith for decades now. Longer than when James Comey was in office. In 2002 it changed from law enforcement to national security as much for the budget increase, and its methods, whether in curbing CSAM distribution or in pursuing Islamist terrorists, were less about making the nation safer for the public and more about fabricating credit for the agency. But then it was just as reprehensible in the J. Edgar Hoover years, and it's only because of serial killer fiction that I might have imagined better.

At least since the 1990s, law enforcement across the nation has lost its impartiality. I can't say they protected and served much in the 1980s or before, but they certainly have not since the aughts. Being involved with them, such as working as an informant, is just as problematic as being involved with the mob. Possibly more so in the 2020s.