This story is disturbing. A school district in Pennsylvania issued laptop computers to some 2300 high school students. These computers include a security feature that allows the built-in camera to be activated externally. The school district claims this feature can help locate stolen computers.
But sophomore Blake Robbins may have discovered an abuse of the webcams by the school district. Robbins was accused of undisclosed “improper behavior” IN HIS HOME. The assistant principal making the accusation presented “as evidence a photograph from the webcam in his school-issued laptop.”
The gall of the school district is surpassed only by the assistant principal, who didn’t seem to understand the can of worms she was opening.
I’m looking at that little dot that is a webcam at the top of my computer a little differently now. Is that you Hal?
