Blake J. Robbins is filing a lawsuit the Lower Merion School District because of a webcam. The case started after Blake was called into the office and was disciplinedfor inapropriate behavior (the evidence being a photo from a school issued Laptop. the photo was of blake eating a peice of candy that the vice principle mistook as a pill. Why would the Vice principle even have a photo of him at home? the answer is the Tracking function was on. its supposedidly a feature that takes a photo if the laptops are missing , but these wernt missing they were registered and loaned out the and the students paid the insureance. one teacher even praised the tracking feature "It's an excellent feature. Yes, we have used it, and yes, it has gleaned some results for us. But it, in and of itself, is just a fantastic feature for trying to—especially when you're in a school environment and you have a lot of laptops and you're worried about, you know, laptops getting up and missing. I've actually had some laptops we thought were stolen which actually were still in a classroom, because they were misplaced, and by the time we found out they were back, I had to turn the tracking off. And I had, you know, a good twenty snapshots of the teacher and students using the machines in the classroom".
So are the teachers spying my answer is yes. in an artical i read it said that a year before this law suit 2 studient council members twice confronted the principal about the laptops heres the quote "that the school could covertly photograph students using the laptops' cameras." Students were particularly bothered by the web-cam's flickering green activation light, which several students reported would periodically turn on when the camera wasn't in use. Hmmm suspicious.
and on top of this the school still hasnt taken off the software used to track the laptops Stupid right.
So in conclusion i say that the school should in fact have to pay some sort of fine and should get new laptops without the tracking feature.
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