If a Best Buy technician is a paid FBI informant, are his searches legal?
This is pretty clear cut and I hope it gets decided the right way. The 4th amendment doesn&#x27;t apply to private actors acting of their own accord, but <i>does apply</i> to private actors acting as agents of the government. The payments make this a slam dunk--the Best Buy employees were working as agents of the FBI and any searches they did require a warrant.