Computer repairs illegal in some states

State PI laws, which I've reported on since January, are making it illegal for people to perform basic computer repair and security operations unless they hold a plicense or work for a licensed PI in their states. That’s what it’s come to in the state of Texas, according to an October 31 article in the Institute for Justice, which says:

Under 2007 amendments to Texas’s Private Security Act, a computer repair technician without a government-issued private investigator’s license may not take any action that the government deems to be an “investigation.”  The law’s definition of “investigation” is extremely broad, including the “review and analysis of, and the investigation into the content of, computer-based data[.]”

It takes years of training and thousands of dollars in licensing fees to become a private investigator. It takes even more time to become a good geek. Geeks aren't PI's. And PI's certainly aren't, nor want to be, geeks. 

We can't stop taking care of our computers and networks until we get everyone licensed. So what's it going to take to get Texas, South Carolina and other states to rethink these laws?