PC rental store sued for alleged Webcam spying | Technically Incorrect - CNET News: This Socratic conundrum comes to mind because of a Wyoming Tribune story today that tells of a Casper couple who believe that they were spied on by Aaron's, the Atlanta-based rent-to-buy company from whom they rented their Dell Inspiron laptop.
Crystal and Brian Byrd claim, in a lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania, that Aaron's showed them a picture of Brian Byrd that had been taken using spying software from DesignerWare, a company also named in the suit.
Brian Byrd is adamant on that subject. He told the Tribune: "I never thought in a million years anybody would do something like that. I read the contract. I read every word of it and it doesn't say anything in the contract about it either."
The Tribune says that a subsequent police investigation (the Byrds immediately informed the police after the manager's visit) revealed that it was Aaron's standard practice to store Webcam data on a central server in Pennsylvania.