School uses student laptop webcams to spy on them at home

This is absolutely disgusting. This is a HUGE invasion of privacy that that school has no right to do. That school should be sued off the face of the earth.

Link: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/17/school-used-student.html

Wow that is really wrong, hopefully they put a stop to it...

wow

bigbrothers watching eh

wtf?

Why would they even care what their students are doing at home?

wtf?

Why would they even carewhat their students are doing at home?

GabuEx

This is so wrong; I'm not sure I belive this.

That school is basically right up the road from where I live...

Wait, punishing them for things they did in their own home? Idiots, this is one case where they deserve to get sued.

1984 coming moving closer day by day.... yea i know its 2010 :P But Orwell was right!

Oh ma gawd! It's tha new world order!

Someone is going to lose their job and someone else is going to become much richer because of this.

So. Wrong. :|ghoklebutter

This is sick.

how can that even be allowed. I can't even think of anywhere even suggesting they do that where I live. In my school pupils and parents just wouldnt take that kind of ****.

[QUOTE="GabuEx"]

wtf?

Why would they even carewhat their students are doing at home?

xaos

I read a bit of the article and it seems like the administration isn't very bright. Well... if they were geniuses in the first place we wouldn't be paying them less than what we pay a man whom collects refuse for a living.

What the **** makes them think a students personal life is any of their business. Their business is their own business. I thought schools taught law, they did when I attended. Apparently they no longer do since the teachers no longer know their own civilboundaries.

I never liked webcams for this reason. It's why I unplug my microphone when I'm not using it. As long as you're online anyone can infiltrate your network andintercept all forms of transmission as well as hijack peripherals.

The school administration and board will get their asses handed down in the court of law. I wonder if pupils sued the school as an institution or persons running the surveillance program. If the later, someone will be looking into some serious jail time

how does that work..?

anyways, that is disgustiing, why do they care?

The school administration and board will get their asses handed down in the court of law. I wonder if pupils sued the school as an institution or persons running the surveillance program. If the later, someone will be looking into some serious jail time

shinian

If it's happened to me, I sue them. If failed, put tape on webcam. It's simple as that.

I never liked webcams for this reason. It's why I unplug my microphone when I'm not using it. As long as you're online anyone can infiltrate your network andintercept all forms of transmission as well as hijack peripherals.

MagnumPI

Unless some program on your computer is transmitting data from your webcam or your microphone to another destination on the internet (and even if it was it would probably be encrypted, unless it was malicious), no one can get any information from them. You can't intercept what doesn't exist.

That school is basically right up the road from where I live...

xXBuffJeffXx

i assuredly would've been the student who took it home, formatted it and installed whatever i wanted. thats been my MO when i've had free computers given to me (and its happened a couple times)

but this is ridiculous, just absurd. hopefully the school gets sued and shut down. i don't see how it ever got this far, how many civil liberties and rights have just been tossed aside.

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That school is basically right up the road from where I live...

Tauruslink

Well, I'm in school in Pittsburgh, but when I'm home in 3 weeks I will!

They might be aware of this conversation, though. Maybe they're even watching. :shock:

If this were a private school I'd be more sympathetic to the school, but this is a public school. If they're worried about their students misusing their computers, then they shouldn't give it to them in the first place, they shouldn't invade their privacy unless the school explicitly informs them that they can and will use their computers to spy on them.

That said, I hope the plaintiffs win this lawsuit, and I'm confident that they will.

It's the school's lap tops....so they can put what they want on it.LJS9502_basic

It's the school's lap tops....so they can put what they want on it.LJS9502_basic

i knew something is wrong with schools

[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]It's the school's lap tops....so they can put what they want on it.danwallacefan

Wow, that's messed up. Sucks for the lawyer that has to defend the school.

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[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]It's the school's lap tops....so they can put what they want on it.LJS9502_basic

[QUOTE="danwallacefan"]

[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]It's the school's lap tops....so they can put what they want on it.LJS9502_basic

[QUOTE="danwallacefan"]

[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]It's the school's lap tops....so they can put what they want on it.LJS9502_basic

Who it belongs to is negligible because the laptop was misused. That's the problem here; particularly if students were not made explicitly aware that this could happen. You're essentially saying, "the school owned the laptop so they can do anything illegal they want with it."

[QUOTE="danwallacefan"]

[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"]It's the school's lap tops....so they can put what they want on it.LJS9502_basic

[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"][QUOTE="danwallacefan"] not if the school is payed for by the State.

horgen123

[QUOTE="horgen123"][QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"] Ah yeah. Even if the school is public. Still the property of the school...not the student.LJS9502_basic

Maybe because the school district did this covertly and illegally and never made the students expressly aware of it?

[QUOTE="LJS9502_basic"][QUOTE="danwallacefan"] not if the school is payed for by the State.

xXBuffJeffXx

Who it belongs to is negligible because the laptop was misused. That's the problem here; particularly if students were not made explicitly aware that this could happen. You're essentially saying, "the school owned the laptop so they can do anything illegal they want with it."