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School Admin Takes Fifth Amendment in "Peeping Tom" Case
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 09:35:45 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com> Date: April 18, 2010 3:55:37 PM EDT To: undisclosed-recipient:; 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. ... http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2362791,00.asp ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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