Kelly Heyboer and Amy Ellis Nutt report: One of the two students accused of secretly using a webcam to watch Tyler Clementi in an intimate encounter with another man has withdrawn from the university — but she hopes to eventually return to classes, friends said. Molly Wei, 18, e-mailed professors to get assignments and continued…
Category: Youth & Schools
New student card: Big benefit or Big Brother?
David Abel reports: The hope is that the card will open an array of city services to students and reduce their absenteeism; the fear is that the new data it provides to city officials could be abused for less educational purposes. City officials plan to launch a pilot program today to make it easier for…
Ca: Man hacked into girls’ computers to videotape them
Sue Montgomery reports on a case where some people are probably wishing there could be a death penalty: Daniel Lesiewicz used his computer savvy to hack into young girls’ computers, pose as someone they knew, then convince them to undress in front of their webcams. If they didn’t continue with his game, he threatened to…
Upskirt Filmer Terrorizes Canadian University
Kashmir Hill has more on the news story out of Dalhousie where someone is surreptitiously videotaping females and uploading the videos to the web: … CBC News quenched my prurient thirst by revealing the culprit as YouTube user “LeggingSpy.” As the name suggests, he or she likes to surreptitiously film women in leggings. Due to…