Well....

I can't say anything that hasn't been said, but if that isn't a violation of privacy, I don't know what is.

 

I was going to agree with you but after thinking it out this is an invasion of privacy ad in my state might be illegal

 

Thanks for reading the article everyone.

So it must be true, right?

 

+1

I hope they get the snot sued out of them.

 

It seems they actually turned on the webcams remotely 42 times! : Spying school district update: turned on webcams 42 times, FBI isn't sure that's legal -- Engadget supposedly to locate missing laptops. personally I don't buy it. and they don't capture audio only video not that that is gonna save their asses

 

Surely they could've just turned on the webcam for the specific missing laptop(s) instead of turning them all on? Like each laptop had a number assigned to it and whoever had the controls to activate the webcams would just access whichever specific laptop number they needed. Kid goes 'I've lost my laptop', person in charge looks up the laptop number for that kid and accesses it. Surely technology is capable of that?
That way it wouldn't really be an invasion of privacy. It'd be like losing your mobile phone or having it stolen and dialing the number to see where it was or who had it.

 

All I have to say is if my daughter gets a laptop from school when she gets older and someone is peeping on her, the mf'er is gonna get his/her arms broke. And a black eye without any peas.

 

School Officials Likened to "Peeping Toms" - The Early Show - CBS News

Not only is the FBI looking into it, but they've opened a criminal investigation.

And finally a statement on what the school thought they saw.

Notice the school hasn't said anything about that? Really not looking good for them. But really, what did they expect? Were they really that freaking stupid?

"Well, it seems your son may be using drugs. How do we know? Umm...we were remotely spying on him with his webcam without anyone's knowledge or consent?"

It amazes me people this dumb are wandering around in charge of anything.

- Coeloptera

 

Well said Coeloptera, well said.

 

Teachers being stupid ceased to amaze me somewhere about two months after my 11th birthday.

 

I see, so...I better be careful eating little candies around webcams...they might think I am using drugs. *hides the Smarties* Seriously though, how can.. you know what, nevermind. I forgot how hard it is to amaze me anymore with how stupid people can be.

 

Geeeeez... that school cannot possibly hope to win. And it also brings to question, if the school was brazen enough to visually spy on them, how much of their surfing data, private emails, etc. did the school also collect? Because you KNOW they have.

Slightly off topic: How in the hell can a program where you give laptops to each and every student possibly succeed and not be a huge financial drain? I mean, I'm sure there's a reasonable amount of "nanny" software on these computers, but you've gotta know that these things are coming back beat to shit and loaded to the hilt with viruses. If my Facebook contacts are any gauge of it, most people are extremely computer illiterate and heap viruses to themselves. These are grown adults. How much more teenagers?

I can only imagine the condition these computers come back in--keyboards caked in crumbs from kids eating over them, filth from less than clean homes, busted parts from being carried around in backpacks, the list really goes on and on.

Not to mention they'd need to be replaced every two years to keep them up to date.

 

That statement came from the family, not the school.

 

Yeeeesss. Notice the school has not said what they were trying to discipline the kid for? You would think that would be right up there in their defense, since that's what started this.

But they haven't said anything. Likely, I think, because it suddenly hit them how amazingly foolish they had been.

- Coeloptera

 

They haven't even said the student had been disciplined.

So far this is a very one sided argument.

 

Yes, because the school has already admitted they used the spycams without anyone's consent.

- Coeloptera

 

Parents had to sign an acceptable use agreement that said the school would monitor hardware. It didn't explicitly say anything about the webcam feature, which the school should have mentioned, but at least parents were made aware the computers could be monitored.

According to the school, the webcams were only used in attempt to track down stolen or missing laptops.

On top of that, this was what the Superintindent had to say:

If you are going to keep presenting the school in the wrong, at least take the time to read the articles on the case.

 

There always has to be one person who is on the side of the fascists.

   

 

Where have I said anything that I was on the side of the school?

As of now, nothing have been shown that the school did anything wrong other than what the family has said in interviews and until that happens, I'll keep an open mind.