"FBI reviewing school webcam case" by Associated Press | February 20, 2010
PHILADELPHIA - The FBI is investigating a Pennsylvania school district accused of secretly activating webcams inside students’ homes, a law enforcement official with knowledge of the case told the Associated Press yesterday....
Days after a student filed suit over the practice, Lower Merion officials acknowledged yesterday that they remotely activated webcams 42 times in the past 14 months, but only to find missing student laptops....
Yeah, sure.
Families were not informed of the possibility the webcams might be activated in their homes without their permission in the paperwork students sign when they get the computers, district spokesman Doug Young said.
The district has suspended the practice amid the lawsuit and the accompanying uproar....DAMN RIGHT! We have HAD IT with this damn tyranny.
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Related:
PHILADELPHIA - A suburban Philadelphia school district used school-issued laptop webcams to spy on students at home, potentially catching them and their families in compromising situations, a family argues in a federal lawsuit.
Lower Merion School District officials can activate the webcams without students’ knowledge or permission, the suit said. Plaintiffs Michael and Holly Robbins suspect the cameras captured students and family members as they undressed and in other embarrassing situations, according to the suit.
Tom Halperin, 15, a sophomore from Wynnewood, Pa., said students are “pretty disgusted’’ and have started putting masking tape over their computer webcams and microphones.
Who said Amurkn kids were stoo-pid!!!
The accusations amount to potentially illegal electronic wiretapping, said Witold J. Walczak, American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania director.
More dough for you to fork over, taxpayers.
Translation: they do and did.
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I'm sick of being right.
Also see: Around AmeriKa: Pennsylvania Poop Period
Of course, the FBI isn't going to find anything.
Their job is to cover up crimes, not solve them:
"FBI closes file on fatal anthrax mailings" by New York Times | February 20, 2010
My printed copy is AP and this PoS has been rewritten and reedited with all sorts of omissions -- including the family's claims of innocence.
Translation:
The New York Times and FBI are LYING TO YOU AGAIN, America -- as they ALWAYS DO!
