School Accused of Secretly Spying on Students Through Laptop Webcams  

Posted by Alexander Sigismondi in

A recent case filing in Robbins vs. Lower Merion School District, a Pennsylvania school, is a class action suit on behalf of students with school-issued laptops whose web-cams have been used to watch the students and their families at home.

The laptops issued by the high school had software on the laptop where the web-cam could be activated. The plaintiff, Blake J. Robbins, was disciplined by the school for “improper behavior in his home.”

This is very alarming. Privacy is disappearing rapidly, and it seems that now is a time where the limits are being pushed and tested.

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2 comments

Maija Heard   says February 18, 2010 at 8:32 PM

I think this is a total invasion of privacy and it should be illegal. I hope that the students win this case and a law is created to prevent schools from being able to have this software on their computers. People's homes are one of the few places that people have some type of privacy and society is trying to corrupt that as well; it is just ridiculous.

Asher Simonds   says February 19, 2010 at 1:34 AM

It is understandable that the school would think it right since the laptops are its property, but this is a clear violation of privacy and should indeed be punishable. This reminds me of the trouble Ford Motors caused in the early 20th century, when it would send people to its employees' houses and teach them how to be model workers and citizens, without the people's consent.

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