Even if I sell you my hard drive it does not mean that I grant you access to my data. If that was the case we would just have to get some EOL hard drives from Apple/Microsoft/Google etc and get access to their IP.
Your comparison is not even comparable to a legally agreed forfeiture as it was in this case. Bad snuck premise. Try again.
Taking a picture of people in public is perfectly legal yet it requires no permission. There are countless examples of where permission has nothing to do with legality or legitimacy. Please do your research and stop spreading misinformation about law.
When you give your pc to geek squad to change a fan you do not forfeit your rights to your IP. Spin it as you want, but you cannot change the facts.
Edit: Feel free to share with us the signed document that the shop owner has from his customer about releasing his data. That form would help his memory about who the customer was anyway.
Again bad snuck premise. If you leave your PC at Geek Squad there is a standard legal clause that states if you do not pick up the item within a certain amount of time then it becomes their property. Being that it is their property they can choose to dispose of it or do whatever they want with it, including reading the information and sharing it.
Geek squad is not a warehouse nor do they want the burden of holding the equipment indefinitely. This is common practice across almost all goods services such as laundry, shoe repair, instrument repair, etc. There’s an overwhelming legal precedence in this case. In this case the shop owner attempted to return the equipment several times but no response was heard, therefore the standard contract clause(s) are executed.
I think where you’re struggling is you’re confusing your emotions, clearly you don’t like this outcome, with legality. Feelings are not facts.
I could cite a whole bunch of legal jargon and cases to utterly destroy your weak argument, but I’ll have mercy keep it high level like above.
I won’t be responding to further comments because we both know you’re just pouting here and you got some free legal education on my dime.
