{"id":348943,"date":"2010-02-19T10:31:07","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T15:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22758"},"modified":"2010-02-19T10:31:07","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T15:31:07","slug":"high-school-spied-on-students-at-home-via-their-laptops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/348943","title":{"rendered":"High School Spied On Students At Home Via Their Laptops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-22799\" style=\"margin-left: 20px;margin-bottom: 10px\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/ComputerSpying.jpg\" alt=\"Is Your Computer Spying on You?\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" \/>Wow, can this be true? Truly a situation in which &#8220;Big Brother&#8221; comparisons are no exaggeration. It&#8217;s being reported that the Lower Merion School District, in a wealthy suburb of Philadelphia, is being sued for spying on its students at home, after issuing the students laptops with webcams that could be covertly activated by school administrators for surveillance, writes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/02\/19\/school-district-admi.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The issue came to light when the Robbins&#8217;s child was disciplined for &#8220;improper behavior in his home&#8221; and the Vice Principal used a photo taken by the webcam as evidence. The suit is a class action, brought on behalf of all students issued with these machines.<\/p>\n<p>Update: The school district admits  that student laptops were shipped with software for covertly activating their webcams, but denies wrongdoing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, can this be true? Truly a situation in which &#8220;Big Brother&#8221; comparisons are no exaggeration. It&#8217;s being reported that the Lower Merion School District, in a wealthy suburb of Philadelphia, is being sued for spying on its students at home, after issuing the students laptops with webcams that could be covertly activated by school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}