Thread: Big Brother is Watching your Teenagers

Thats just wrong on every level.

The people involved should be sacked immediately, prosecuted and barred from working with children for life. The laptops should also be destroyed, but I dont think the school should suffer a penalty. Sure, it'll make life harder for the staff, but at the end of the day the people it's really going to impact are the kids.

Originally Posted by Stubear

The laptops should also be destroyed.

Um... they are just standard laptops. How is destroying them going to do any good?

Originally Posted by niftyshaving

Wow.... too much room for abuse!
Without proof that it was abused little
will happen under the law. But any
improper image might have been
captured via this mechanism. How can
anyone tell if it was or was not....

It was abused.
The school contacted one of the parents because they had proof of 'improper behavior' of the kid in his own room.

Originally Posted by Bruno

Um... they are just standard laptops. How is destroying them going to do any good?

I was just thinking in case they had any images of the students on them.

In that case a simple hard disk format (or replacement for the paranoid) suffices. The real problem is: where is all the data that was captured by the admins, and was it contained safely or is it stored on an internal FTP server under the 'hot nekkid cheerleaders' folder for the enjoyment of all?

Even ignoring the moral and legal arguments for the moment...

Whoever thought it was a good idea to give adult to middle age male administrators a tool with which they could look into and record the inside of the bedrooms of potentially over a thousand young girls.

Originally Posted by Bruno

Even ignoring the moral and legal arguments for the moment...

Whoever thought it was a good idea to give adult to middle age male administrators a tool with which they could look into and record the inside of the bedrooms of potentially over a thousand young girls.

That's what gets me. There had to be several people involved in this, and the fact that from proposal to implementation, NOBODY stepped up and said "you know, this might not be such a great idea" is beyond belief.

And then this:

The Robbinses said they learned of the alleged webcam images when Lindy Matsko, an assistant principal at Harriton High School, told their son Blake that school officials thought he had engaged in improper behavior at home.

Can you imagine how that phone call went?
"So, uh, we were using your son's laptop to spy on him at home the other day, and we saw..."

Utter lack of common sense. I wouldn't trust these morons with a driver's license.

I saw a program on TV where some neighbor who did carpentry instaled cameras in peoples attic when he worked for them and would spy on them in their bedrooms. They took him to court but to my amazement they said it was nothing more than a misdemeanor since there was no audio on the cameras. Un believeable. This is one of the worst things I have ever read. If I were the parent I believe I would be wanting to beat the crap out of who ever is responsable.

I can't believe the school's lawyers let this slip by prior to implementation. The kids should have been made aware of the possibility and it should have been clearly laid out and signed for when they got the 'puters. Then signed for again when reported lost or stolen....dummies.

Jordan

Originally Posted by jnich67

I can't believe the school's lawyers let this slip by prior to implementation. The kids should have been made aware of the possibility and it should have been clearly laid out and signed for when they got the 'puters. Then signed for again when reported lost or stolen....dummies.

Jordan

Exactly...and to play the devils advocate here for a moment...and don't get me wrong...this is sick snd I don't agree with what the school did in any way but the fact that they were "school issued" computers makes them the property of the school. Our computers here at work can be monitored and as far as checking our emails if deemed necesary. However, we are informed of this and have to agree to it before usage.