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.boing
Benjamin Krueger writes:
> 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?
On one hand, I agree with you,
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Benjamin Krueger 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,
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
>
Luke,
As a former US Government Employee I resent the comment that I was hired
because I could be briw beat into doing what my boss ordered even if it
was against the law. All Government workers are not mindless drones that
mimic the work of the information workers in Orwell's 1984.
Granted the pe
Hot Diggety! Benjamin Krueger was rumored to have written:
> 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,
> 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.
Here is my on
> 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.
Heheh. FWIW,
On Feb 18, 2010, at 3:58 PM, John BORIS wrote:
> As for this I worry about Orwell's predictions coming to fruition as
> Technology advances. It is very easy now to monitor almost everything.
> If you have EZ-pass or some other electronic toll device you can easily
> be cited for speeding on a Tur
John BORIS wrote:
>If you have EZ-pass or some other electronic toll device you can easily
>be cited for speeding on a Turnpike as your are marked on entry and exit
>with a time stamp. A short calculation can get your speed and bingo you
>get mailed a ticket for speeding.
That scenario hardly ne
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:06:24PM -0800, Dave Close spake thusly:
> That scenario hardly needs advanced technology. I recall that 40 years
> ago both Pennsylvania and Oklahoma used a turnpike system where you
> were given a ticket at the on-ramp and then paid at your offramp based
> on the combina
Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>
> Here is my one point of skepticism: How can "a school" spy on you? A
> school is made of brick and stuff. Whenever somebody does something
> unethical in a school, or Microsoft, or Apple, or Google, or the government,
> people quickly say "Microsoft stole software"
- Original Message
> From: Tracy Reed
> To: discuss@lopsa.org
> Sent: Thu, February 18, 2010 10:20:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] School spies on children at home with webcams
>
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:06:24PM -0800, Dave Close spake thusly:
> > That scenario hardly needs
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