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 Is the school laptop watching your child and you?
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Kailash
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Registered Member #2827
Joined: Sun Jan 13 2008, 11:39AM
Posts: 136Status: Offline
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This is disturbing. Nothing is free! In this case one pays with one's
privacy. It is another way of spying on people - just give them a
booby trapped free laptop! Is your laptop watching your child
and you when it is being used? I would not be surprised if the
popular operating systems have backdoors in them which no one
can detect or close.
US school accused of web spying
By Angela Harrison
BBC News education reporter
'The school district says the laptops had a "security device'
Parents in the US have accused a school of spying on children by remotely
activating webcams on laptops.
A couple from Pennsylvania have filed a lawsuit against a school district
which gave laptops to its high school pupils.
They say their son was told off by teachers for "engaging in improper
behaviour in his home" and that the evidence was an image from his
webcam.
Lower Merion School District says it has now deactivated a tracking device
installed on the laptops.
It says the security feature was only used to track lost, stolen and missing
laptops. But it was deactivated on Thursday and would not be re-instated
without informing students and families, the district said.
'Stages of undress'
The Lower Merion School District gave the laptops to all 1,800 students at
its two high schools with the aim of giving them access to school resources
around the clock, according to its website.
More at: http://tinyurl.com/yklsdhh
....and Darkness said to Light: "Without Me You cannot be. Light replied: "Without Me You are not! I am You and You are Me. Therefore we are One." - Kailash
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