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This wasn't just perverts trying to catch the kiddies nekkid. Because there is more to this than just the plaintiffs side and the media hype. 42 other incidences according to the schools press release where the same technology was used to recover stolen equipment.

Should they get the smack down for those as well? Or is recovering your own property verbotten now?

It was in the contract that the parents signed that that was how the laptops could be located, so if someone reported the laptop missing or stolen, the school would be within its contractual rights to activate the webcam in an effort to recover it, which is NOT the circumstances under which the webcam was activated.

The school district was WRONG for activating the webcam on a laptop that was not reported missing or stolen and then chastising a student for *inappropriate behavior* using information illegally and inappropriately obtained using the webcam.

According to what I read, the school admitted they never even told the families they would activate the webcams to recover lost/stolen laptops, either. If that’s true, they’re really in deep trouble.

But, I guess we’ll find out more when the case reaches court. It sure has us all thinking now about laptop webcams and how they might be used. I never knew. (Then again, I don’t have a laptop. I hate using those little computers.) I admit I would’ve shrugged this story off as a conspiracy theory if I’d heard it on the street.

It was in the contract that the parents signed that that was how the laptops could be located...

So now you are changing your story and admitting they knew this LoJack software was installed?

As for the facts, hopefully those will come in trial. Not that I think it'd change your mind much...