(1) The school district requires every student to take a school laptop. They aren't permitted to use any other laptop for their classes.
(2) The students are required to carry their laptops from class to class.
(3) Each student is required to pay an insurance fee for his or her laptop. If he fails to pay the insurance fee, he cannot take the laptop off-campus. However, the insurance fee is waived for lower-income students.
(4) School administrators admitted they never informed students or parents that the school could activate the webcams remotely to look in on the students at home.
My husband works in IT, and he said the IT people at the school should've known they could NEVER do something like this. This security consultant explains more.
Were the Students told to leave the iSight uncovered and that LoJack was installed?
The school requires the kids to use only that computer for school work which they know means the kids are going to be taking the computers home.
They prohibit the webcams from being covered up.
They turned on the webcam on this kid’s computer not under conditions which they themselves specified, ie. the report of a lost or stolen computer.
They chastise the boy for “inappropriate behavior” in his own room, which they illegally observed and recorded.
Nobody FORCED the school to turn on the webcam of a computer not reported lost of stolen. Nobody forced them to record what they saw. Nobody forced the VP to chastise the boy for what they inappropriately saw in the privacy of his own room or house.
And somehow it’s everybody’s fault but the school distict’s because the parents/kids/maid/gardener/whoever, wasn’t doing the job of policing the child’s use of the computer at home conscientiously enough.