{"id":1348,"date":"2007-08-04T08:12:30","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T12:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/update\/index.php\/2007\/08\/04\/is-geek-squad-now-the-peek-squad\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:53","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:53","slug":"is-geek-squad-now-the-peek-squad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2007\/08\/04\/is-geek-squad-now-the-peek-squad\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Geek Squad Now the &#8216;Peek Squad&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/c\/?1558\">NewsFactor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Best Buy Co. Inc. bought the Geek Squad five years ago, the two companies pledged to &#8220;protect the world from the assault of computerized technology Relevant Products\/Services.&#8221; Geek Squad &#8220;agents&#8221; even wore badges and drove vehicles resembling police cars.<\/p>\n<p>But as this squadron of techno-nerds has mushroomed into the largest collection of computer troubleshooters in the world, it has become increasingly difficult for the firm to police its own employees.<\/p>\n<p>In recent months, allegations of agents copying pornography, music and alluring photos from customers&#8217; computers have circulated on the Internet. Some bloggers now call it the &#8220;Peek Squad.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From NewsFactor: When Best Buy Co. Inc. bought the Geek Squad five years ago, the two companies pledged to &#8220;protect the world from the assault of computerized technology Relevant Products\/Services.&#8221; Geek Squad &#8220;agents&#8221; even wore badges and drove vehicles resembling police cars. But as this squadron of techno-nerds has mushroomed into the largest collection of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}