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Monday, February 22, 2010

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The FBI has launched an investigation into a Pennsylvania school district that has been accused of spying on students through webcams on laptops it issued to those students.

Lawyers for Harriton High School student Blake Robbins plan to ask a judge Monday to order the retention of all data on 2,300 laptops issued to students by the Lower Merion School District, near Philadelphia, the Associated Press reports.

The Robbins family launched the lawsuit after an assistant principal confronted Robbins with evidence of "improper behavior in his home," and showed him a picture from inside the home, taken by the webcam.

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How can you wire tap or put up a camera without the person knowing WITHOUT a warrant??

Someone(s) is in big trouble.

More--

"Schools have very limited authority under the Constitution to deal with things that are off-premises after hours and have nothing to do with the school itself, so in this case I think the school was out of bounds, literally," she said. "Schools are schools, police are police, and they never should meet."

Lower Merion School District spokesman Doug Young told CNN that all students who were issued a school laptop had to sign an agreement that allowed the school to use remote activation if the laptop was lost or stolen. But he admitted it was a "mistake" not to overtly tell parents and students that the school district had this ability.

"Doug Young told CNN that all students who were issued a school laptop had to sign an agreement that allowed the school to use remote activation if the laptop was lost or stolen."

Except, in this case, it was neither lost nor stolen.

Let's put a webcam in the superintendent's jail cell!

Someone should be going to jail--not sure of the penalties for this.

Depending on what the school has in its' possession form the spying activities--they could get child porn allegations as well.

Not "the school"--"the principal" or "the administration." Let's be specific. And yes, prosecute the motherfucker. For activities performed on school grounds, the administration has an absolute right to control student access. And if the district issues computers to students or employees, then the administration has an obligation to prevent illegal activity using said computers. But that can be done through means other than webcams.

Prag--are you sticking up for the superintendent and the schools?

They are secretly using webcams on computers given to students to spy on the kids.

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