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Lower Merion High School Webcam Flap: Report Says 56,000 Images Snapped
Lower Merion High School Webcam Flap: Report Says 56,000 Images Snapped
Posted by Larry Dignan @ 7:25 pm
April 19th, 2010
ZDNet
<http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=33263>
A school district accused of spying on students with Webcams now appears
to have snapped 56,000 images, according to reports.
<snip>
In February, Lower Merion apologized and moved to allay worries. But the
allegations led to everything from an FBI investigation to new
legislation. Those worries may rev up again following a Philly.com report.
According to Philly.com, the flagship site of the Philadelphia Inquirer
and Daily News:
Lower Merion School District employees activated the web cameras and
tracking software on laptops they gave to high school students about 80
times in the past two school years, snapping nearly 56,000 images that
included photos of students, pictures inside their homes and copies of the
programs or files running on their screens, district investigators have
concluded.
School Admin Takes Fifth Amendment in "Peeping Tom" Case
By: David Murphy
04.18.2010
PC Magazine
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2362791,00.asp>
Lawyers for Harriton High School sophomore Blake Robbins are claiming that
the teenager's school district has used built-in tracking software on
students' laptops to take "thousands" of unauthorized images, "including
pictures of Blake partially undressed and of Blake sleeping."
The motion, filed April 15 by Michael and Holly Robbins, is the latest
salvo in a class-action lawsuit filed against the Lower Merion School
District of Ardmore, PA earlier this year. The issue of remote laptop
surveillance came to light after school administrators accused Robbins of
"improper behavior in his home," based on a photograph that was taken
through the school's remote-monitoring software, LANrev.
Around 2,300 students across two schools in the district have received
$1,000 Macintosh laptops for use with said software preinstalled and, as
allegedly confirmed by one of Harriton's assistant principals, it can be
remotely activated at any time, for any reason.
According to the lawsuit, "By virtue of the fact that the Webcam can be
remotely activated at any time by the School District, the Webcam will
capture anything happening in the room in which the laptop computer is
located, regardless of whether the student is sitting at the computer and
using it." Consequently, the suit is accusing the school district of
violating various federal and state statutes against surveillance and
wiretapping, including the federal Electronics Communications Privacy Act.
Posted on Sat, Apr. 17, 2010
L. Merion to let parents see secretly snapped photos
By John P. Martin and Dan Hardy
Inquirer Staff Writers
Philadelphia Inquirer
<http://www.philly.com/inquirer/front_page/
20100417_L__Merion_to_let_parents_see_secretly_snapped_photos.html>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://tinyurl.com/y4xtyp3>
The president of the Lower Merion school board said Friday that
investigators had retrieved "a substantial number" of photos secretly
snapped by laptops the district gave its high school students, and that
officials were arranging for parents whose children were photographed to
see the pictures in private.
In his strongest terms since the furor began over the laptop-tracking
program two months ago, board president David Ebby also said district
officials "deeply regret the mistakes and misguided actions" that have
given rise to a lawsuit, a federal criminal inquiry, a call for new
privacy legislation, and a wave of national publicity.
But Ebby said Lower Merion's continuing internal investigation had found
no evidence that its employees used the technology for "inappropriate"
purposes."
"We are committed to disclosing fully what happened, correcting our
mistakes, and making sure that they do not happen again," he said in a
statement addressed to parents and guardians and posted on the district's
Web site.
Ebby's comments came less than a day after a lawyer for Harriton High
sophomore Blake Robbins filed a motion in federal court asserting that the
district's system for tracking lost or stolen laptops had secretly
captured "thousands" of images, including photos of students in their
homes, the Web sites they visited, and excerpts of their online chats.
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