School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home

The laptops issued to high-school students in the well-heeled Philly suburb have webcams that can be covertly activated by the schools' administrators, who have used this facility to spy on students and even their families.

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Created by Neal Conner 3 years 13 weeks ago – Made popular 3 years 13 weeks ago
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Charge Them...

baraka66 3 years 13 weeks 1 day 1 hour ago

... with intent to create child porn.

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Some more links

Cyphase 3 years 13 weeks 2 days 5 hours ago

I woke up late today, but when I saw this story elsewhere, I figured it would already be here :P. Here are are a few more articles about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blake_J._Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_Dis... http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/84715297.html?cmpid=15585797 http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/02/school-under-fire-for-sp... http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/18/1846222/PA-School-Spied-On-Studen...

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They know no limits, because they aren't liable.

BobRobertson 3 years 13 weeks 2 days 8 hours ago

If there were any better example of the dangers of government ANYTHING, this is it.

The only limits government agents know are those imposed by other government agents.

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Dammit Neal!

Renniks 3 years 13 weeks 2 days 13 hours ago

I was 8 min 55 seconds late from submitting this one myself! Ghastly story though.

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