School IT allegedly took "thousands" of pics in webcam case
Found on Ars Technica on Sunday, 18 April 2010
Now, thanks to the court order asking the district to preserve evidence on all school-issued computers, the family has discovered more than 400 photos of Blake alone, not to mention the "thousands" more taken of other students in their homes.
Even if you think the school district is within its rights to install monitoring software on school laptops, the IT staff appear to have gotten the whole district into a hairy situation by turning laptop security into their own real-life high school "soap opera."
The school is not within its rights. They not only need to tell this to the students before they get a laptop, but especially to their parents. Everything else is simply illegal and even the worst lawyer can come up with a bunch of laws that school has broken.