[citation][nom]crazazyasian1337[/nom]ok, so I go to this school, and there are a few things to be cleared up.firstly, every student was given a MacBook by the school to take home and use for the whole year. These MacBooks however have the capability of being remotely accessed by the school at any time, a feature originally intended to be used in case the computer was lost. The problem is, someone has apparently been caught doing something illegal while at home through this camera, and thus the lawsuit began.The principal made a statement today during school saying the school district would never use the camera to spy on kids and that the whole situation was being blown out of proportion.[/citation]
The school owns them, so they should be able to monitor them in turns of HD content, making sure kids don't have pr0n or illegal music/movies etc on them. However, using the web cam to monitor the child is an eggregious violation of privacy. If this happened to me, I would be absolutely furious. It's insane. And the fact that the school has picture evidence of the child doing something OUTSIDE of school, and OUTSIDE of the school's jurisdiction, only serves to incriminate the school. This is absolutely outrageous. The school has absolutely no right whatsoever to discipline the kid for anything he does outside school, unless it obviously affects his school performance and they have legal proof of it. If the kid was coming in high/drunk to school, they can do something about that. But otherwise it is a horrible violation of privacy.