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Fourth Amendment news--Schools and privacy, actually, lack thereof

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

PA: School district sued for using laptop cameras to spy on students A Pennsylvania school district has been sued for allegedly giving its students laptops and then spying on its students at home through cameras on the laptops. See Lower Merion School District sued for cyber spying on students: Lower Merion School District officials brag that they give every one of their 1,800 high-schoolers laptop computers to "ensure that all students have 24/7 access to school-based resources." Instead, they ensured they got 24/7 access to students' private lives by secretly installing webcams they remotely control to spy on teens and their families at home, according to a federal, class-action lawsuit filed this week in Philadelphia. The suit alleges the covert cameras violate everything from the Fourth Amendment to wiretapping, electronic communications and computer fraud laws...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on February 18, 2010 (boomark / email).