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rulemylife -> RE: FBI probing Pa. school webcam spy case (2/20/2010 2:28:26 AM)
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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl
They are school property... not given... but issued. If i were issuing a bunch of kids laptops, i sure would have a way to track them.
That's not what the suit is about, tracking a school's property does not give them the right to invade a student's privacy outside of the school:
According to the suit, Harriton vice principal Lindy Matsko told Blake on Nov. 11 that the school thought he was "engaged in improper behavior in his home."
She allegedly cited as evidence a photograph "embedded" in his school-issued laptop.
The suit does not say if the boy's laptop had been reported stolen, and Young said the litigation prevents him from disclosing that fact.
He said the district never violated its policy of only using the remote-activation software to find missing laptops. "Infer what you want," Young said.
The suit accuses the school of turning on Blake's webcam while the computer was inside his Penn Valley home, allegedly violating wiretap laws and his right to privacy.
Blake Robbins told KYW-TV on Friday that a school official described him in his room and mistook a piece of candy for a pill.
"She described what I was doing," he said. "She said she thought I had pills and said she thought that I was selling drugs."
Robbins said he was holding a Mike and Ike candy, not pills.
Holly Robbins said a school official told her that she had a picture of Blake holding up what she thought were pills.
"It was an invasion of privacy; it was like we had a Peeping Tom in our house," Holly Robbins told WPVI-TV. "I send my son to school to learn, not to be spied on."
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