On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice is scheduled to file a motion for summary judgment in a case that could concern every general counsel, CEO or other corporate executive who has ever taken a personal computer to a technician to be repaired.

The issue behind the case is that most repair shops ask customers to sign repair contracts acknowledging that if a tech finds any evidence of something illegal on the computer, the tech can report it to authorities.

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