It’s not the NSA, but its tactics are just as troublesome. In an Orwellian escapade, the chain store Aaron’s Inc., a rent-to-own franchise, was taking a page from its sales pitch and looking to own just a little bit more of its customers—their private lives.

According to Aaron Smith in CNN Money, Aaron’s installed software called Detective Mode on the computers it rented, which tracked data “through keystrokes, screen shots and webcam images.”