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Pa. school settles 2 webcam-spying lawsuits for $610K

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10-14-2010 Pennsylvania: PHILADELPHIA ? A Philadelphia-area school district agreed yesterday to pay $610,000 to settle two lawsuits over secret photos taken on school-issued laptops. The Lower Merion School District admitted it captured thousands of webcam photographs and screen shots from student laptops in a misguided effort to locate missing computers. Harriton High School student Blake Robbins, then 15, charged in an explosive civil rights lawsuit filed in February that the district used its remote tracking technology to spy on him inside his home. Later evidence unearthed in the case showed that he was photographed 400 times in two weeks, sometimes as he slept in his bedroom, according to his lawyer, Mark Haltzman. The settlement calls for $175,000 to be placed in a trust for Robbins and $10,000 for a second student who filed suit, Jalil Hassan...continue to full post

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