Copying data

Hold on, here. The first thing i do with any customer's PC is to copy MyDocs - and any other personal folders - onto an external drive, and from there to CDs / DVDs (which are given to the customer as backup). I do this so that i can work on the machine with the confidence that whatever I need to do with it, no-one will lose their photos etc. Also because almost *no-one* except pros has backups of their data.

I do NOT rummage around, nor read emails or anything else. And if I do happen to see a photo of a wife in her underwear, so what?

But someone recording what I do might think I was squirrelling away terabytes of people's personal files. Not so - I keep the data on my external hard drive for a couple of days in case of some disaster, and then it's deleted.

Copying things isn't always sinister.