
FBI, US Attorney Investigating Penn. School District's Computer Spying on Young Students
A suburban Philadelphia school district has been accused of monitoring students at home via school-issued laptops. The webcam monitoring came to light last week after a lawsuit was filed by the family of a fifteen-year-old student who had his webcam activated after the school mistook his eating of candy for the consumption of drugs. The FBI and the US Attorney's Office for eastern Pennsylvania have launched investigations, and a judge has ordered the monitoring to stop. Ref. Source 2
My main interest in this story is who was doing the looking and was it actually sanctioned by the school or just merely some pervert taking his trusted privileges and abusing them?
No Charges Brought Against Philadelphia School that Monitored Students by Remotely Activating Webcams
The Justice Department announced late last month that it would not bring any federal charges against the suburban Philadelphia public school system that monitored students by remotely activating the cameras on computer laptops issued to its students. While the school system will face no criminal charges, two civil lawsuits filed by students are proceeding. Ref. Source 3