On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Benjamin Krueger <benja...@seattlefenix.net > wrote:
> 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 > > 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? > > Benjamin Krueger > benja...@seattlefenix.net > > As much as I like Cory Doctorow, you should instead read the Ars Technica version ( http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/02/school-under-fire-for-spying-on-kid-via-webcam-at-home.ars) where they actually tried to do a little bit of journalism. They point out that it could've been that the kid took a picture of himself doing something "bad" using the built-in webcam, and school officials may have just seen the picture. This is a far cry from the claim that the school was remotely accessing a live feed of the webcam at the time. Given how this story has blown up in the past 4 hours, I don't expect anyone will actually wait until the facts are in before making a judgment, but it needs to be said that no one really knows what happened at this point.
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