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.

Comments

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

All our computers run in the public areas of the house. Low tech, but it prevents other problems teenagers may be inclined to find on the internet. But, yeah, I understand their sentiment.

[perspicuity.livejournal.com]

how about this?

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2008/12/galveston_false_arrest.php

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2009/01/dymond_milburn_galveston.php

http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2009/02/update-on-dymond-milburn.html

STILL going on:
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/hairballs/2010/01/dymond_milburn_galveston_polic.php

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Dymond%20Milburn

creepy times

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