{"id":668205,"date":"2010-02-18T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5474614"},"modified":"2010-02-18T09:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:10:00","slug":"school-spies-students-through-their-laptop-cameras-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/668205","title":{"rendered":"School Spies Students Through Their Laptop Cameras [Privacy]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/500x_eye-cam.jpg?w=500\" class=\"left image500\"  \/>High School students have sued the Lower Merion School District in Philadelphia for spying on them using their laptops&#8217; built-in cameras. School administrator used software to activate the webcams and record students&#8217; activities <i>at home.<\/i> Way to go, KGB-wannabe assclowns.<\/p>\n<p>The situation was discovered by the Robbins, when their kid was disciplined for &#8220;improper behavior in his home.&#8221; How could that be possible? The Vice Principal showed a photo as the evidence. A photo taken with the school-provided laptop webcam.<\/p>\n<p>If the lawsuit accusations are true, I hope they ground these slimy people forever. [<a href=\"http:\/\/craphound.com\/robbins17.pdf\">Lawsuit<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/02\/17\/school-used-student.html\">BoingBoing<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=a8bbe04deb0aeb46e3f73de7c76b2a2c&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=a8bbe04deb0aeb46e3f73de7c76b2a2c&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?resize=0%2C0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=IBVxqEiFykw:vSjtMqUuHjA:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=IBVxqEiFykw:vSjtMqUuHjA:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=IBVxqEiFykw:vSjtMqUuHjA:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=IBVxqEiFykw:vSjtMqUuHjA:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=IBVxqEiFykw:vSjtMqUuHjA:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=IBVxqEiFykw:vSjtMqUuHjA:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/IBVxqEiFykw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High School students have sued the Lower Merion School District in Philadelphia for spying on them using their laptops&#8217; built-in cameras. School administrator used software to activate the webcams and record students&#8217; activities at home. Way to go, KGB-wannabe assclowns. The situation was discovered by the Robbins, when their kid was disciplined for &#8220;improper behavior [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":949,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-668205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2NPv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/949"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}