{"id":375350,"date":"2010-02-26T16:20:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-26T21:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=23462"},"modified":"2010-02-26T16:20:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-26T21:20:20","slug":"school-administrator-boasts-to-pbs-about-his-laptop-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/375350","title":{"rendered":"School Administrator Boasts to PBS About His Laptop Spying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Cory Doctorow at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/02\/25\/school-administrator.html\">BoingBoing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scott sez,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A few weeks ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/digitalnation\/learning\/schools\/how-google-saved-a-school.html?play\">Frontline premiered a documentary called &#8220;Digital Nation&#8221;<\/a>. In one segment, the vice-principle of Intermediate School 339, Bronx, NY, Dan Ackerman, demonstrates how he &#8220;remotely monitors&#8221; the students&#8217; laptops for &#8220;inappropriate use&#8221;. (his demonstration begins at 4:36)<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/><\/code><\/p>\n<p>He says &#8220;They don&#8217;t even realize we are watching,&#8221; &#8220;I always like to mess with them and take a picture,&#8221; and &#8220;9 times out of 10, THEY DUCK OUT OF THE WAY.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He says the students &#8220;use it like it&#8217;s a mirror&#8221; and he watches. He says 6th and 7th graders have their cameras activated. It looks like the same software used by the Pennsylvania school that is being investigated for covertly spying on students through their webcams.<\/p>\n<p>The shocking thing about this is that the privacy concerns were not even mentioned in the Frontline documentary!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing: Scott sez, A few weeks ago, Frontline premiered a documentary called &#8220;Digital Nation&#8221;. In one segment, the vice-principle of Intermediate School 339, Bronx, NY, Dan Ackerman, demonstrates how he &#8220;remotely monitors&#8221; the students&#8217; laptops for &#8220;inappropriate use&#8221;. (his demonstration begins at 4:36) He says &#8220;They don&#8217;t even realize we are [&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-375350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375350","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=375350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}