[lopsa-discuss] School spies on children at home with webcams

[Benjamin Krueger]

This story came out yesterday. A public school utilized webcams in laptops to spy on children and their families both at school and at home. The practice came to light after the Principal reprimanded a student for behavior at home, using a picture from a webcam as evidence.

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/17/school-used-student.html



Benjamin Krueger
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I have no particular question for the list, other than this. How did we get to a place where sysadmins will implement such blatantly illegal and unethical systems? What can we do to discourage this kind of behavior in the IT field?

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