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The Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania provides lap top computers to every one of their 1,800 high school students. School officials say that this ensures that all students have '24/7 access to school based resorces'. It seems the actual reason is to allow school officials after school access to the students' home lives. Each one of the student lap tops contains an embedded web cam that can be remotely activated by the school personnel. Let me be clear, anything happening in any room the school provided lap top is in can be watched by school officials whenever they choose to activate the web cam. This is not just checking what the computer was accessing on the web, this is watching what goes on in the family homes of these children. This came to light when student, Blake T. Robbins, was pulled into assistant principal, Lindy Matsko office to be reprimanded for 'improper behavior at home'. To verify the accusation Ms. Matsko produced a picture taken by the web cam in the boy's home. A lawsuit has been filed by Blake's parents on his behalf, in federal court. Not all lawsuits are frivolous, not all educators are intelligent, and not all big brother scenarios involve the government in the role of bad guy.
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/breaking/news/20100218_Lower_Merion_School_District_sued_for_cyber_spying_on_students.html

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Posted By: Alex - Thu Feb 18, 2010
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Sorry, that's Woe

Posted by done on 02/20/10 at 12:01 AM

you are right howie. i guess i don't think of the schools as goverment but really they are.

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 02/20/10 at 01:57 AM

I guess now's not the time to offer some of you gals a laptop?

Posted by jswolf19 in Japan on 02/20/10 at 10:33 PM

oh js, honey, we know you'd watch and some of use might accept one anyway.(can you say show time? 😜)

Posted by Patty in Ohio, USA on 02/20/10 at 10:38 PM

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