Brian Mathis wrote: > 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.
The claims in the case (17 page PDF provided in a link on the boingboing page) are fairly clear. ( http://craphound.com/robbins17.pdf ) "This continuing surveillance of Plaintiffs' and the Class members' home use of the laptop issued by the School District, including the indiscriminant remote activation of the webcams incorporated into each laptop, was accomplished without the knowledge or consent of the Plaintiffs or the members of the Class." So the class action is clear, but yes, the details on whether the claim is true, will have to come out in court. -- END OF LINE --MCP _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
