WTF

Pennsylvania school district denies spying on students with MacBooks
By Gregg Keizer - Computerworld
February 19, 2010

A suburban Philadelphia school district yesterday denied it spied on students by remotely activating the cameras on their school-issued MacBook laptops.
In a statement released late Thursday, Christopher McGinley, the superintendent of Lower Merion School District of Ardmore, Pa., admitted that the MacBooks' cameras could be turned on without the user's knowledge, but said that the functionality was part of a security feature.

On Tuesday, a high school student and his parents sued the district, claiming that the boy's MacBook had been used to spy on him in his home. According to the lawsuit, Michael and Holly Robbins of Penn Valley, Pa., said they first found out about the alleged spying last November after their son Blake was accused by a Harriton High School official of "improper behavior in his home" and shown a photograph taken by his laptop.

Improper behavior in his home? Accused by a high school official? What kind of an ‘official’? The ‘official’ decides what is improper behavior in the student’s home? Maybe improper behavior is some pervert 'official' spying on students. Are we paying 'officials' to this? Is it a full time job? How many photos were taken? Of who? Who has the photos? Lot's of questions here.

Peeping under changing room doors at a department store gets you arrested...and maybe registered as a sex offender.