Investigation Of Pennsylvania School District's Use Of Laptop Webcams Expands

USA Today (5/3, Moore) reports as "the result of a student lawsuit, Lower Merion School District has admitted theft-tracking software for the district's 2,600 student laptops activated webcams and automatically snapped photos of kids in school and at home. Over two years, the district captured 56,000 images, including shots of students and the images on their computers." USA adds that in addition to the student lawsuit, there is a Federal investigation underway. The "unusual case of school-sanctioned spying - and the national and international publicity it has caused - has roiled the leafy precincts of Bryn Mawr, Gladwyne and other communities in Lower Merion Township, a well-heeled area of Philadelphia's Main Line suburbs."