Richard Ilgenfritz reports: An internal investigation into the Lower Merion School District’s use of the computer tracking software confirms that tens of thousands of images were found and investigators are putting a lot of the blame on the district’s tech staff. According to the findings of the investigation that was released to the public Monday…
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Feds Say Judge Hampering Webcam Spy Probe
David Kravets reports: Prosecutors are claiming a federal judge is hampering a criminal investigation into a webcam scandal at a Philadelphia suburban school district. The evidence prosecutors are seeking is connected to a federal civil lawsuit in which plaintiff’s lawyers claim the Lower Merion School District secretly snapped thousands of webcam images of students using…
Administrator agrees to surrender computer in Web cam case
John P. Martin brings us the latest development in the lawsuit against the Lower Merion School District for activating a webcam to record a student in the student’s home: The Lower Merion School District administrator who had the ability to activate the Web cams on students’ laptops agreed Friday to let investigators inspect her personal…
Webcamgate: Filing states student broke rules and had no expectation of privacy
Derrick Nunnally reports that the Lower Merion School District IT coordinator is firing back against Harriton High School sophomore Blake Robbins’ lawsuit. Even in his own home, the Harriton High School sophomore had “no legitimate expectation of privacy” from the camera on his school-issued laptop, information systems coordinator Carol Cafiero contended in a court filing…