Pennsylvania Public School Peeping on Pupils in Private

[Timshel]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/20/AR2010022000679.html

PHILADELPHIA -- A Pennsylvania school district accused of secretly switching on laptop computer webcams inside students' homes is under investigation by federal authorities, a law enforcement official with knowledge of the case told The Associated Press.

The FBI will look into whether any federal wiretap or computer-intrusion laws were violated by Lower Merion School District officials, the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the investigation, told the AP on Friday.

Days after a student filed suit over the practice, Lower Merion officials acknowledged Friday that they remotely activated webcams 42 times in the past 14 months, but only to find missing student laptops. They insist they never did so to spy on students, as the student's family claimed in the federal lawsuit.

 

[Adam Weinberg]

They learned from the best.

When I got my MacBook Pro a couple years ago, I put a sticky pad over the internal webcam on account of the fact that it cannot be unplugged and has no lens cover.

It may be paranoid, but I'd like to use every bit of prevention in my own control to not fall prey to crooks public and private.

 

[USFREEDOM911]

They learned from the best.

When I got my MacBook Pro a couple years ago, I put a sticky pad over the internal webcam on account of the fact that it cannot be unplugged and has no lens cover.

It may be paranoid, but I'd like to use every bit of prevention in my own control to not fall prey to crooks public and private.

So you were the one that did tha.....................................; er, I mean good job.