SPYCAM: PHILLY DAILY NEWS:

[PCIntern]

I'm not going to comment...what's the point at this point?

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/homepage/20100428_Spycam_case_more_than_meets_the_eye.html


Spycam case more than meets the eye

By WILLIAM BENDER
Philadelphia Daily News

[e-mail] 215-854-5255
YOU CAN think what you want, said Holly Robbins, but it's not about the money.

Robbins said that she didn't want to sue the Lower Merion School District when she discovered in November that her 15-year-old son's school-issued laptop was secretly snapping pictures inside their home.

She didn't want to tarnish the reputation of the Main Line district where both she and her husband attended school. And she didn't want parents thinking that they were a money-grubbing family trying to dig themselves out of debt with a class-action lawsuit.

"I tried to communicate with the school prior to filing the lawsuit," Robbins said Sunday during an interview at her Penn Valley home, her hand clasped around her husband's. "I didn't want to file the lawsuit; I didn't want to go through that."

In the family's first extensive newspaper interview, Robbins said that she just wanted to find out why Harriton High School officials were surreptitiously photographing her son, Blake, with the webcam on his Apple MacBook. And she wanted it to stop. But she says that she couldn't get any answers.

"Nobody called me back," she said. "Nobody responded to me."


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Much more at the link....

[Richard Steele]

1. K&R

[tammywammy]

2. k&r n/t

[Maat]

3. K&R.

People don't realize that discovery would not have happened without the lawsuit. The lawsuit forced the district to fully disclose what had gone on (and what was going on). I thank the Robbins family for waking us up, to the potential for abuse, and we don't even live in the district. Look at the attention, even from Congress, that this lawsuit has generated; additional protections may be instituted, and that's a good thing.

[TorchTheWitch]

4. exactly

K&R

[woo me with science]

5. This is so important.

Without this family, we would never have known.

Still waiting for the media to look into where else this may be happening.

[dmr]

7. so very true!

:hi:

[SidDithers]

6. But it wasn't systematic, so it's OK...

96% of computers never had their software activated!!

just in case: :sarcasm:

Sid

[pokerfan]

8. k&r