Students in Pennsylvania were thrilled to receive laptops free of charge from their school district to create a "seamless" way to collaborate on projects and access school materials. What they didn't expect was school officials activating the laptop webcams remotely.
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But the parents and students say that, without their knowledge, the access went both ways. Nowhere in any "written documentation accompanying the laptop," or in any "documentation appearing on any Web site or handed out to students or parents concerning the use of the laptop," was any reference made "to the fact that the school district has the ability to remotely activate the embedded webcam at any time the school district wished to intercept images from that webcam of anyone or anything appearing in front of the camera," the complaint states.
Very very wrong...
