Lower Merion School District sued for cyber spying on students
April 24, 2010
“Lower Merion School District officials brag that they give every one of their 1,800 high-schoolers laptop computers to “ensure that all students have 24/7 access to school-based resources.”
“Instead, they ensured they got a 24/7 sneak peek into students’ private lives by secretly monitoring webcams embedded in the laptops to spy on teens and their families at home, according to a federal, class-action lawsuit filed this week in Philadelphia.”
Read the article from Philly.com
Follow-up article from KREM.com, “Pa. district took 56,000 images on student laptops”
Months later…..the school district investigated and said, “…there’s no evidence of spying…” (even though they remotely activiated the webcams 177 times). Read the newsclip and decide for yourself.
“Lower Merion School District officials brag that they give every one of their 1,800 high-schoolers laptop computers to “ensure that all students have 24/7 access to school-based resources.”
“Instead, they ensured they got a 24/7 sneak peek into students’ private lives by secretly monitoring webcams embedded in the laptops to spy on teens and their families at home, according to a federal, class-action lawsuit filed this week in Philadelphia.”
Read the article from Philly.com
Follow-up article from KREM.com, “Pa. district took 56,000 images on student laptops”
Months later…..the school district investigated and said, “…there’s no evidence of spying…” (even though they remotely activiated the webcams 177 times). Read the newsclip and decide for yourself.