This hasn’t hit too much mainstream media yet, but apparently our esteemed legislature approved a law in their last session that makes it a legal requirement for computer repair technicians to become licensed private investigators.
Apparently the PI lobby persuaded the law makers to classify the investigation of data on a hard drive to be only done by licensed private investigators.
So, let’s say you take your personal into Joe’s Personal Repair and ask him why your personal runs so slow. He looks on your hard drive and finds viruses in your email or spyware in your kid’s IM program — apparently that’s an investigation of private data and is now against the law if Joe is not a licensed PI.
And it’s also apparently illegal for YOU, the consumer to bring your personal for repair to a shop that does not employ a licensed PI.
Luckily some smart lawyers who like to fight such stupidity have already filed a lawsuit against the Texas Private Security Board.
Since I repair computers for a living I can’t wait to see what happens.
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