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Apr. 16th, 2010 11:13 amhttp://www.philly.com/philly/news/breaking/20100415_Lawyer__Laptops_took_thousands_of_photos.html
The system that Lower Merion school officials used to track lost and stolen laptops wound up secretly capturing thousands of images, including photographs of students in their homes, Web sites they visited, and excerpts of their online chats, says a new motion filed in a suit against the district.
More than once, the motion asserts, the camera on Robbins' school-issued laptop took photos of Robbins as he slept in his bed. Each time, it fired the images off to network servers at the school district.
Back at district offices, the Robbins motion says, employees with access to the images marveled at the tracking software. It was like a window into "a little LMSD soap opera," a staffer is quoted as saying in an e-mail to Carol Cafiero, the administrator running the program.
"I know, I love it," she is quoted as having replied.
The interesting thing is not just that this story gets worse and worse as the case unfolds, but the potential repercussions under US federal law. See, all that you need is just a single inappropriate image of one of these students sans underwear anywhere in the archives of images, and the entire Lower Merion system, and the school district is complicit in the production and distribution of child pornography, which carries mandatory minimum sentencing of at least 5 years. Considering that they’re now throwing child porn charges at teens who exchange dirty photos of themselves (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/01/kids/), should the school district have any greater protection?
EDIT: Administrator takes the Fifth when asked if she ever 'downloaded images to her personal computer, including pictures of students either partial dressed or naked?'. Dingfuckingdingding
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/webcamscanda/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29
The system that Lower Merion school officials used to track lost and stolen laptops wound up secretly capturing thousands of images, including photographs of students in their homes, Web sites they visited, and excerpts of their online chats, says a new motion filed in a suit against the district.
More than once, the motion asserts, the camera on Robbins' school-issued laptop took photos of Robbins as he slept in his bed. Each time, it fired the images off to network servers at the school district.
Back at district offices, the Robbins motion says, employees with access to the images marveled at the tracking software. It was like a window into "a little LMSD soap opera," a staffer is quoted as saying in an e-mail to Carol Cafiero, the administrator running the program.
"I know, I love it," she is quoted as having replied.
The interesting thing is not just that this story gets worse and worse as the case unfolds, but the potential repercussions under US federal law. See, all that you need is just a single inappropriate image of one of these students sans underwear anywhere in the archives of images, and the entire Lower Merion system, and the school district is complicit in the production and distribution of child pornography, which carries mandatory minimum sentencing of at least 5 years. Considering that they’re now throwing child porn charges at teens who exchange dirty photos of themselves (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/01/kids/), should the school district have any greater protection?
EDIT: Administrator takes the Fifth when asked if she ever 'downloaded images to her personal computer, including pictures of students either partial dressed or naked?'. Dingfuckingdingding
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/04/webcamscanda/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29
