There have always been stories about geek squad and other places saving customer's files for their personal use, reporting customers to the police for content f

There have always been stories about geek squad and other places saving customer's files for their personal use, reporting customers to the police for content found on their drives, or handing customer's data over to the state. I doubt the government or the repair shops have any interest in putting a stop to it. Any time I've had to take my PCs in for something I pull out the hard drives before driving them over. As long as the machine can POST, I can take care of the rest. It gets a lot trickier with other devices though. I can't imagine trying to pull the storage out of laptops, tablets, cell phones, or game consoles.