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PA school spied on students via school-issued laptops

Feb 18, 2010#1

figmentPez

Suit: Pennsylvania school spied on students via laptops

PHILADELPHIA – A federal lawsuit accuses a suburban Philadelphia school district of spying on students at home through school-issued laptop webcams.

The suit says Lower Merion School District officials can activate the webcams remotely without students' knowledge. The lawsuit alleges the cameras captured images of Harriton High School students and their families as they undressed and in other compromising situations.

Families learned of the alleged webcam images when an assistant principal spoke to a student about inappropriate behavior at home.

That is messed up. How many people had to think this was acceptable for it to happen?

EDIT: Crap, Fun Size beat me by 8 minutes.

Feb 18, 2010#2

LittleSin

I think someone got to it faster then you did.

Feb 18, 2010#3

Kitty Sinatra

LittleSin said:
I think someone got to it faster then you did.

That's why this thread is tagged [Fail]

Feb 18, 2010#4

Dave

The [Fail] tag was never more appropriate!

Feb 18, 2010#5

sixpackshaker

oh my god.

Feb 18, 2010#6

Cajungal

I think it's ok that there are 2 threads about this... one's not enough to hold all my disgust.

Feb 18, 2010#7

Allen, who is Quiet

...is wrong with these people?

Feb 18, 2010#8

PatrThom

figmentPez said:
EDIT: Crap, Fun Size beat me by 8 minutes.

Well, duh! He could see you were taking way too long creating the post, so he took advantage of the delay to get his version out sooner.

--Patrick

Feb 19, 2010#9

The Key of J

I've been out of the loop for a while, but I wonder how long it'll be before they lean "terrorists" or simply give a scap goat up. Either way, the psychological trauma that this could have caused justifies a public reprimand if for no other reason than to make people feel safe again. Unfortunately, I think we're going to see a lot more of this kind of stuff happening and being allowed before too soon.

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