See post 111 where Tribune7 posted a link to the suit.
http://billlawrenceonline.com/photos/RobbinsvLM.pdf
From the link....
Look at page 6 number 23 and 24.
Twenty-three was in the excerpt of the article in the thread and says,....
“On November 11, 2009, Plaintiffs were for the first time informed of the above-mentioned capability and practice by the School District when Lindy Matsko, an Assistant Principal at Harriton High School, informed minor Plaintiff that the School District was of the belief that minor Plaintiff was engaged in improper behavior in his home, and cited as evidence a photograph from the webcam embedded in minor Plaintiff’s personal laptop issued by the School District.”
The real eye opener, is on the next page, page 7, where the school acknowledges that that the computers and school have the ability to do this.....
ARGH, can’t copy and past off the pdf......
I’m going to type it out here....
24. “Michael Robbins thereafter verified, through Ms. Matsko, that the School District in fact has the ability to remotely activate the webcam contained in a students’ personal laptop computer issued by the School District at any time it chose and to view and capture any images that were in front of the webcam, all without the knowledge, permission, or authorization of any persons then and there using the laptop computer.”
Number 25 is even more alarming....
25. Additionally, by virtue of the fact that the webcam can activated at any time by the School District, the webcam will capture anything happening in the room in which the laptop computer is located, regardless of whether the student is sitting at the computer and using it.
I hope that clears up any uncertainty anyone has about whether it was possible or not.
The rest of the pdf shows legal areas where the school is going to be SOOOOOOO screwed......
You know, I read that PDF earlier, and I forgot all about those statements! Thank you for going back into it and pointing them out. We’re probably all so shocked, and we’re trying to wrap our minds around this whole story. How can it be that school administrators believe they can do this? It sounds like something right out of “1984”.
We don’t want to believe this story is true. And then there it is... in numbers 24 and 25.
The school bought every student in school Macbooks with track-back feature which allows the school district to take photos anytime a laptop is reported missing in order to help find it. They didn't have to hack any computers to do this.
These computers are not cheep btw. How the school district could justify such a huge expenditure, paid for by a state grant, while other school districts are destitute should be interesting to hear them explain also.
What is clear is that the assistant principal was misusing the tracking feature and that she and anyone else that was doing this should end up in prison. They are also going to cost the school district millions in damages. Here is another article with much more detail.