School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home

[PeppyGPhiB]

It really doesn't matter what the kid was doing. The school has no right to eavesdrop, spy or cyberstalk - let alone record - kids and their families in their own homes. I hope the school and the district - which surely knew about the software purchased for such spying activity - gets nailed.

[RU OX Alum]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

It really doesn't matter what the kid was doing. The school has no right to eavesdrop, spy or cyberstalk - let alone record - kids and their families in their own homes. I hope the school and the district - which surely knew about the software purchased for such spying activity - gets nailed.

Yeah, that's spying. That's CIA level spying. And it was an administrator? Thank god they hired inept people to spy on children. That is horrible.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

It really doesn't matter what the kid was doing. The school has no right to eavesdrop, spy or cyberstalk - let alone record - kids and their families in their own homes. I hope the school and the district - which surely knew about the software purchased for such spying activity - gets nailed.

If it turns out that they did purchase the software for this kind of spying, isn't it likely to turn out that the parents probably signed something that at least theoretically gave them the power to monitor the computer? (not that webcaming was what any parent would have thought of)

School systems do stupid stuff, sure, but it seems really baffling that they thought that spying by webcam on kids off-campus, for anything other than misuse of the laptop, was going to fly. It's such a breach of common sense with so little self interest for the district that I can't imagine the district did intend to do it.

Maybe the assistant principal in question decided to overstep what the district might have had in mind in terms of their statement about lost or stolen laptops.http://www.lmsd.org/sections/news/de...u=lmsd&id=1143

ETA: in contrast to my first paragraph, the letter from the district owns up to never explicitly warning people about the software. EATA: the letter also notes that the assistant principal wouldn't have had access to the program.

[RU OX Alum]

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

It really doesn't matter what the kid was doing. The school has no right to eavesdrop, spy or cyberstalk - let alone record - kids and their families in their own homes. I hope the school and the district - which surely knew about the software purchased for such spying activity - gets nailed.

Yeah, that's spying. That's CIA level spying. And it was an administrator? Thank god they hired inept people to spy on children. That is horrible.