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Fourth Amendment news--Webcamgate: School warned of risk in '08 by student, and the school blew him off

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

In the "famous last words" category, on ABAJ.com by Martha Neil: Student Warned Defendant School Dist. in ‘08 of Potential Webcam Privacy Peril: Lower Merion School District would have the ability to monitor students remotely, via the laptops' webcams, and "I could see not informing parents and students of this fact causing a huge uproar," the unidentified teen said in an e-mail reviewed by the Philadelphia Inquirer. In response, information systems director Virginia DiMedio told him he should "take a breath and relax," the newspaper recounts. The district is not "a police state" and had no intention of monitoring students at home, she e-mailed back. The story came from the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the paper got it from an e-mail sent to the school in 2008.continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on May 04, 2010 (boomark / email).