Pennsylvania School District Accused of Spying on Students for Second Time

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Pennsylvania School District Accused of Spying on Students for Second Time

OKLAHOMA CITY -- For the second time this year, parents said employees at one school district have been spying on their kids at home by accessing the web camera on their school-issued laptop.

Blake Robbins said it first happened to him. The 15-year-old claimed he was spied on thousands of time via his school issued laptop web camera. He said he believes the school even took pictures of him while he was asleep in his home.

"I feel like my privacy has been compromised," Robbins said.

Now another family has come forward. The mother of 18-year-old Jalil Hassan said the Lower Merion School District near Philadelphia spied on her son and her entire family by accessing his school computer when he was at home.

Jim Tate runs a computer and software store in Oklahoma City called Computer Nerdz. He said the software the school district installed in those laptops is a program that can be activated from a remote site in the event of a loss or theft.

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[Sherman A1]

1. You have to ask yourself a couple of questions here

1). Why would anyone take one of these laptops into their home?

2). If they did, why not put electrical tape over the web cam?

What happened is absolutely wrong, but I sure wouldn't have one of them in my home unless I took serious measures to prevent it from being a problem.

[nenagh]

2. I supposed that the computers...

were being used to convey classroom material.. as in instead of books...

But that is a guess only...