John P. Martin reports: The Penn Valley family whose lawsuit against the Lower Merion School District launched a firestorm over the district’s use of webcams to track student laptops has dropped its plans to seek class-action damages. In court filings made public Wednesday, the lawyer for Harriton High School sophomore Blake Robbins and his parents…
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FBI will be allowed to view webcam images in Lower Merion case
The Associated Press reports that the judge in the Lower Merion School District webcam case says that the FBI can view computer evidence gathered through a lawsuit by the family of one student that accuses the district of electronically spying on students. Although a number of blogs I’ve read in the past few weeks seemed…
L. Merion won’t block feds in Web-cam case
John P. Martin reports: One investigation into the Lower Merion School District’s laptop fiasco is done. But as the district tries to move on, another probe churns. Lawyers for the district, some Lower Merion parents, and the Harriton High School sophomore whose lawsuit spotlighted the school system’s use of Web-camera monitoring said Wednesday that they…
Selling your child’s personal information
A reader sent in this link. In looking it over, it’s nothing really new to those who have followed student privacy issues for a while, but on the off-chance that you are a parent and don’t know how much info your child’s school can give out as “public directory information,” I thought I’d post it….