[Dead Corpse]

I don’t even know what a LoJack or an iSight are.

You might wanna bring yourself up to speed then because that is exactly what is being discussed here.

If you sign off on the Acceptable Use policy, you are agreeing to the terms. Or will we now start to advocate breaking contracts if we don't like what they entail?

As a libertarian I look at it this way: You signed the contract. You accepted this from a State sponsored government agency without so much as a whimper. You weren't policing your kids use of said laptop.

Now you are whining about it. Now that it turns out you didn't bother to read the fine print and it wasn't such a nifty "freebie" after all. Terms? Conditions? You mean I can't turn this into my own personal play toy?

Oh Heavens! Must be the EVIL tech persons fault.

Y'all need to start being a LOT more paranoid before the fact instead of realizing how stupid you were AFTER they already have their hooks in you.

[Tired of Taxes]

I'm going to assume you're using the word, you, in a general sense because you can't be talking about me. I personally have never accepted a free laptop from the government. I don't even send my children to public school. You're talking with a group of homeschool parents on this thread. (It's amusing that you think we're not paranoid enough.)

You signed the contract. You accepted this from a State sponsored government agency without so much as a whimper.... Now that it turns out you didn't bother to read the fine print

Let me repeat again: THERE WAS NOTHING IN AN AGREEMENT TELLING THESE PEOPLE THE SCHOOL COULD WATCH AND PHOTOGRAPH THEIR CHILDREN BY REMOTELY ACTIVATING THE WEBCAMS. THERE WAS NO FINE PRINT TELLING THESE PEOPLE THEY COULD BE SPIED ON.

[metmom]

Oh Heavens! Must be the EVIL tech persons fault.

You're making it the evil parents fault for not being better parents.

That kind of blame-shifting is unbecoming of someone who claims to be a libertarian.

I can't imagine any libertarian who would excuse this kind of invasion of privacy by a government entity.

For that matter, if it were a non-government entity, they'd be owned by those parents by now. No private corporation or individual would stand a snowball's chance in hell with those kind of charges leveled against them.

Only schools seem to be exempt from the laws that apply to us little people.