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So some school is being sued for turning on the webcams on their student issued laptops.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/22/...k_spy_row/
Quote:School student Blake Robbins was told last November he had been accused of "improper behavior in his home" - and the evidence for this behaviour was a photograph of him in his bedroom taken via his laptop's camera.
There is so much wrong with this, not the least of which is the school saying the kid behaved 'improperly' at home. He's at home, his behavior there is his parent's problem not the schools. And that's not even addressing the privacy issue.
Thoughts? Do they have a right to do this? It is the school's laptop after all.
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why is he masturbating with a school computer?
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Anhil8tor Wrote:why is he masturbating with a school computer?
Cause the family computer is in the living room?
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They had no right to spy on their students in their homes.
I hope the judge/jury throws the book(mac-book) at them.
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Tribal Dragon Wrote:They had no right to spy on their students in their homes.
I hope the judge/jury throws the book(mac-book) at them.
Agreed. I think they have a right to have spyware on the laptop for log tracking, the same way a company has that right with its computers. If the school doesn't want porn on their laptops fine, but turning on a laptop camera in a teens bedroom with no permission? Why not just take an ad out in the paper: "Lower Merion School District now hiring perverts and pedophiles."
However, I do like the fact that it is Macs being used for evil for once and not PCs.
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If they own the laptops and make the parents sign off on it knowing the school has 100% control of them I'm not sure what you can sue them for.I think its hilarious a kid got caught masturbating on his computer.
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Do you sign your rights away when you rent an apartment? Are they free to come in at any time and make sure you aren't treating the place like garbage?
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BIRD33 Wrote:They were free laptops.Nobody paid for them but the school.It is their property no matter where it is.Its like arguing over getting fired after your employer finds porn on a computer they issued you.
Tracking use is one thing, but think turning on a camera on the laptop in someone's home (and bedroom) especially a teens, opens them up to all sorts of privacy issues. Let's assume there's a kid doing nothing wrong. they use the laptop to write a paper, they plan to finish in the morning, so they leave the laptop open on their desk and get undressed for bed. Now you have a school with the ability to literally spy on kids and not just spy on the laptop usage, they're actually spying on the kid which has nothing to do with laptop usage.
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Let us not forget that while the school district may have paid for them- where does the school district get it's money? Oh yeah, the taxpayers. So whose laptops are they really?
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