This is incredibly evil.
The Complaint is available at http://americasright.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/robbins17.pdf
Video is EVERYWHERE now. What was done with these laptops can be done with cellphone cameras and microphones. Students in classrooms are filming teachers bad days, kids are filming all sorts of things.
"Privacy" of the future will require a lot of 'looking the other way' -- a HIGHER personal ethos in choosing what to take in about people -- when we live in what are becoming glass-walled houses and workplaces. Discretion will be needed -- not by the doer, but by the casual observer, for everything will come to be observable.