Geek Squad Kept Racy Photos From Customer's Phone: Do You Trust Retail Employees With Your Privacy?

Sophia Ellison, a Best Buy Geek Squad customer, alleges the Fairfax, Virginia store's employee violated her privacy. Ms. Ellison says the Geek Squad employee took and kept copies of images from her smartphone when she paid the employee to transfer her photos, phone numbers and email addresses to her new iPhone.

Ms. Ellison said the photos and videos included racy personal photos of her modeling. The phone also had a of her young children joking after getting out of the shower.

"A few days later, he called back to tell me he'd made a CD at his house with all my photos, and when can I come get them. I could pick them up at his house," Ellison tells WTOP. "I felt sick. I felt violated. I felt so embarrassed," Ellison said.

Video of Sophia Ellison

WTOP.COM reports:
A female Best Buy customer says an employee who promised to transfer her contacts and photos to a newly purchased iPhone burned a CD of her racy photos, and invited her to his home to retrieve them.