FBI Gets Involved in School Spying Case

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[CJBernard]

According to the Associated Press, by way of the local Philadelphia ABC affiliate, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has tossed its hat into the ring with regard to Lower Merion School District’s alleged surveillance of students in their own homes by way of remote access to webcam-equipped laptop computers issued by the district’s two high schools to all 1,800 high school students.

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Parents should be outraged. Students have every right to feel violated. And every American who may have been concerned about “big brother” but considered issues like the remote activation of webcams a little too close to the tin-foil-hat crowd should stand up and take notice. Lower Merion School District, looking down from a position of relative authority, did not trust students and parents enough to take care of school laptops on their own enough to even apprise them of the remote access capability and provide them with an option to turn it off — at a time when the federal government is looking to get intimately involved in all aspects of daily life, from health care to energy to the college football postseason, this story is even more relevant than it seems.

[exnavy]

How’s that hope and change workin’ out for ya’ll?

[MsLady]

Sounds like the hope and change Obama and his crowd wanted.

[MsLady]

Cradle to grave, slaves of the state.

[aft_lizard]

Spying on students: Yeah, there is an app for that.

[PA Engineer]

Why worry about it unless you are doing something wrong? [/s]

[dljordan]

“Sounds like the hope and change Obama and his crowd wanted.”

This has nothing to do with O. This has to do with the Nanny State that has been developing for many years. Let’s be truthful, when have ‘our guys’ rolled back any intrusive legislation? It’s been rolling forward under the Democrats and the Republicans for years.

[USMCPOP]

Just keeping an eye out on things. Move along.

[USNBandit]

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.

[SaraJohnson]

Government officials spying on students in their homes deserves some perp walks. We are not Euro-peons.

[maine yankee]

The assistant principal was then ,technically, in possecion of child porn ?

[Ken H]

This has to do with the Nanny State that has been developing for many years. Let's be truthful, when have "our guys" rolled back any intrusive legislation? It's been rolling forward under the Democrats and the Republicans for years.

Well said!

[MaryFromMichigan]

Saw the earlier story.
Glad to see this update!