I am not a Texas legislator, nor do I know a great deal of what is required (and obligated) of PIs, but I can suspect the following:
With the increasing ammount of personal and sensitive data on the computers that these people will be asked to work on, they will be required to know how to handle said sensitive data. A licensed PI might be trained in proper ways to handle it, as well as to have special recognition in the law (and in court!) to having to reveal this information (or being able, legally, to keep this information confidential). On the surface it looks bizzare, but I suspect underneath there is a real reason. Allen On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 02:04:20PM -0400, Christopher wrote: > Snyder, Mark (IT CIV) wrote: > >Saw a link to this on /. Okay, what's up with this? > > > >http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2324220,00.asp > >Texas PC Repair Now Requires PI License > > > >Thank you, > > > >Mark Snyder > That is really messed up. Invariably, That law will cause a > proliferation in the number of PI licenses. Where in the world are they > getting the idea, that, in order to work on a computer, professionally, > a person must have a degree in criminal justice, accompanied, by the PI > license. They are really messed up. > > Christopher > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
