| [2] Lawsuit Alleges School Used Laptops to Spy on Students at Home ======================================================================= Parents of a student attending Harriton High School filed a lawsuit against the Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania for using school-issued laptop web cameras to spy on students. Court papers Charge that the school district is in violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Fourth Amendment, the Pennsylvania Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Act and Pennsylvania common law. The lawsuit arose when the high school's assistant principle, Lindy Matsko, informed one of the students that the School District believed he was engaged in improper behavior in his home. Ms. Matsko then cited evidence of a photograph from the students' laptop webcam as evidence of his wrongdoing. Lower Merion School District acknowledges that it did install web camera spyware on laptops issued to students and provided no notice to parents or students regarding the district's ability to remotely access, capture images of the surroundings, and screenshot information on users. The technology also allowed global positioning data, IP address capture, domain name service logging, as well as recording of date, and times information. The school district states that it only used this capability 42 times during the 2009-2010 academic school year to located reported "stolen" laptops. Laptops were only allowed to contain software installed by the school district, which purchased the Apple Laptops. The Lower Merion School District student handbook states that the laptops was to be used for "educational purposes." The list of "Laptop Capabilities at home" enabled a wide range of Macintosh social networking and user engaging applications such as ichat, iTunes, iweb, ichat, iphoto. The school district nor the school is reported to have used Apple parental controls to limit the time of day the computer would be available nor the use of Apple social networking features. The "Getting Started Guide" states that the same laptop would be issued to the same students throughout their time at the school. Lower Merion School District: Getting Started Guide http://epic.org/privacy/kids/getting_started.pdf Lower Merion School District, Laptop Capabilities (Screenshot) http://epic.org/privacy/kids/laptop_home_capabilities.jpg | ||
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