Philadelphia School District Accused of Invading Student Privacy
Each year the Lower Merion School District in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania distributes Macintosh laptops to 2,300 students who attend two of their county’s high schools, at a cost of $2,300,000.
According to reports, when laptops went missing technology coordinator Carol Cafierro and technician Michael Perbix created a plan to activate the web cams in the missing laptops to capture pictures of the students who had the laptops in their possession. Once activated, via a LANrev software program, the web cams would take a photo every 15 seconds, without the students’ knowledge.
posted on April 28th, 2010
by Alicia, Staff Writer
Tags: Arlen Spector, LANrev, Macintosh, Philadelphia, Russ Feingold, Student Privacy, Wiretap Act
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