February 20th, 2010, 11:03PM in Technology by Marc LequimeView Comments
Macbooks such as these were supplied to the students, unaware of the remote webcam feature.
A school in the US has been using their supplied laptop cameras to spy on students, theoretically. The Lower Merion school district, in Pennsylvania, recently reprimanded one of their students for ‘illicit activities in the home’. When asked how they knew what he was doing in his home, they supplied photographs – taken from the child’s webcam.
The school told students that the green light turning on and off on their webcams was simply a glitch and it was nothing to note about. Female students disclose that they’d be listening to music from the laptops while changing or taking a shower, and now worry if they have been watched by the school administration doing so.
There’s a Federal investigation into this, involving the FBI – if something goes badly, someone’s gonna land their ass in jail for a long time. What’s more, the school have admitted to activating said webcams fourty-two times. In two years!
We’ll just have to see how this all folds out
[Eye photo (front page) from Flickr]
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