School Admin Takes Fifth Amendment in "Peeping Tom" Case

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
Date: April 18, 2010 3:55:37 PM EDT
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Subject: School Admin Takes Fifth Amendment in "Peeping Tom" Case


School Admin Takes Fifth Amendment in "Peeping Tom" Case

By David Murphy
04.18.2010

Lawyers for Harriton High School sophomore Blake Robbins are claiming 
that the teenager's school district has used built-in tracking 
software on students' laptops to take "thousands" of unauthorized 
images, "including pictures of Blake partially undressed and of Blake 
sleeping."

The motion, filed April 15 by Michael and Holly Robbins, is the 
latest salvo in a class-action lawsuit filed against the Lower Merion 
School District of Ardmore, PA earlier this year. The issue of remote 
laptop surveillance came to light after school administrators accused 
Robbins of "improper behavior in his home," based on a photograph 
that was taken through the school's remote-monitoring software, 
LANrev.

Around 2,300 students across two schools in the district have 
received $1,000 Macintosh laptops for use with said software 
preinstalled and, as allegedly confirmed by one of Harriton's 
assistant principals, it can be remotely activated at any time, for 
any reason.

According to the lawsuit, "By virtue of the fact that the Webcam can 
be remotely activated at any time by the School District, the Webcam 
will capture anything happening in the room in which the laptop 
computer is located, regardless of whether the student is sitting at 
the computer and using it." Consequently, the suit is accusing the 
school district of violating various federal and state statutes 
against surveillance and wiretapping, including the federal 
Electronics Communications Privacy Act.

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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2362791,00.asp





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