They do, but it's actually worse that they're getting paid. The incident prompting this article is a child pornography case - which would be fine, since there'

They do, but it's actually worse that they're getting paid. The incident prompting this article is a child pornography case - which would be fine, since there's a reporting requirement for techs even without pay. But rather than getting reports on incidental discoveries, the FBI is apparently paying techs for each discovery; effectively using them as commission-based employees. That's bad because it creates an incentive to search every customer's files for anything reportable, but it's awful because it allows the FBI to rout around warrant restrictions. "Private searches" are legal without warrants, so rather than paying people to do searches (nonprivate), the FBI is giving them money for results (nominally private, with nonprivate motivations).