Continuing erosion of privacy

[unixronin]

Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania issued laptops to its high-school students and encouraged them to take them home.  Then it used the remotely-activatable webcams on the laptops to spy on the students and their families without their knowledge.  (Update:  Another story on it says webcam-equipped laptops were issued to 1,800 students at three high schools.)

A class-action lawsuit has been filed.  I hope the school administrators responsible go to jail for this.  There is absolutely no possible excuse whatsoever.  I won't be surprised if it turns out that some of the school administrators have their own private collections of the racier webcam shots, and if so, I predict they WILL be going to jail, on kiddie-porn charges.

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

There was a recent case somewhere Midwest, I'm thinking, where a school suspended a student for having a shotgun in his truck which was parked OFF campus, and the school board overruled the principal and reversed the suspension. The principal then whined to the media about how "this is sending the message that the school board thinks principals don't have any authority off campus."


Guess what, asshat... YOU DON'T.