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Author Topic: School hands out laptops, uses their webcams to spy on students  (Read 8085 times)

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Re: School hands out laptops, uses their webcams to spy on students
« Reply #15 on: February 20, 2010, 03:17:16 pm »

Then again why would a student need a school laptop anyway? It sounds like a waste of school money if you ask me.
Somebody needed top cover up a lot of embezzled money, I'm guessing.
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Re: School hands out laptops, uses their webcams to spy on students
« Reply #16 on: February 20, 2010, 03:17:35 pm »

That's pretty shocking. The reasoning behind it probably wasn't too innocent either.

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Re: School hands out laptops, uses their webcams to spy on students
« Reply #17 on: February 20, 2010, 03:18:40 pm »

Then again why would a student need a school laptop anyway? It sounds like a waste of school money if you ask me.

Not everyone has a home computer, or acess to one?
Right, but they could just give laptops to the students who dont have them like most schools would do with calculators, rather then give them out to everyone.

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Re: School hands out laptops, uses their webcams to spy on students
« Reply #18 on: February 20, 2010, 03:19:32 pm »

I like how they describe "We caught some teeange boys whacking it to porn" as "compromising or embarrassing positions, including ... in various states of undress"


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Re: School hands out laptops, uses their webcams to spy on students
« Reply #19 on: February 20, 2010, 03:21:33 pm »

If I were them and found someone jacking off I would just delete the image and pretend the whole thing never happened.

Either these people are complete idiots or he was doing something else.
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Re: School hands out laptops, uses their webcams to spy on students
« Reply #20 on: February 20, 2010, 03:25:02 pm »

Then again why would a student need a school laptop anyway? It sounds like a waste of school money if you ask me.

Not everyone has a home computer, or acess to one?
Right, but they could just give laptops to the students who dont have them like most schools would do with calculators, rather then give them out to everyone.

Maybe they figured that everyone would say they can't get to a PC because "Free laptop!" and decided to skip the middle man? I know some kids who would lie like that.
 
@Akroma and cowofdoom: If I were doing it, I would inform their parents and let that take care of itself.
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Re: School hands out laptops, uses their webcams to spy on students
« Reply #21 on: February 20, 2010, 03:30:54 pm »

I don't think the people responsible for the pictures actually had corrupt intentions in this.  They were probably just overzealous moral guardians who didn't know about privacy rights or where their powers ended.
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« Reply #22 on: February 20, 2010, 03:32:42 pm »

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Maybe they figured that everyone would say they can't get to a PC because "Free laptop!" and decided to skip the middle man? I know some kids who would lie like that.
Yeah a few might. But not nearly as many as you would think. They could just rent them out and have them be returned at the end of the year for a small fee.

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@Akroma and cowofdoom: If I were doing it, I would inform their parents and let that take care of itself.
Regardless of if their parents approve of that sort of thing or not, they probably wouldn't want you watching it.
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Re: School hands out laptops, uses their webcams to spy on students
« Reply #23 on: February 20, 2010, 03:36:06 pm »

I don't think the people responsible for the pictures actually had corrupt intentions in this.  They were probably just overzealous moral guardians who didn't know about privacy rights or where their powers ended.

That is probably the reason. Moral guardians are so annoying.

@ Cow: You are right about the last point. As for the first, I don't think many kids will do it, don't know what the district thinks though.
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Re: School hands out laptops, uses their webcams to spy on students
« Reply #24 on: February 20, 2010, 04:53:33 pm »

Seriously, This is so disgusting and disturbing. I am glad I am in college.
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Re: School hands out laptops, uses their webcams to spy on students
« Reply #25 on: February 20, 2010, 05:01:55 pm »

Seriously, This is so disgusting and disturbing. I am glad I am in college.
Hmm... if it did happen in college, I reckon it would be a lot harder to get a lawsuit, as the material itself wouldn't be illegal.  Privacy considerations aren't always easy to protect...
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Re: School hands out laptops, uses their webcams to spy on students
« Reply #26 on: February 20, 2010, 05:02:58 pm »

I'm glad that my high school is not giving us laptops. I never thought I would be happy about that.
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Re: School hands out laptops, uses their webcams to spy on students
« Reply #27 on: February 20, 2010, 05:13:37 pm »

What kind of crazy ass school has the money to throw around laptops, special Big Brother programming not withstanding?

Man, I would have killed for a school that dedicated to interactive learning and functionality.  My highschool spent easily that much money on football equipment and event-coordinated uniforms.

Like the people the idiots tried to obliquely mention, I would have also made webcam footage of my balls to make them stop watching.
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Re: School hands out laptops, uses their webcams to spy on students
« Reply #28 on: February 20, 2010, 05:21:37 pm »

 My highschool had laptops. Of course, they consisted of like twenty that were always locked in a trolley that never left specific classrooms and were rarely used for anything other than mayhaps writing a paper in Physics class, but laptops are getting more popular in schools these days. It was only a matter of time before children were given permission to take 'em home and do what they will with 'em.

 Although I am wondering what brand laptops they were using. Was it a bunch of semi-cheap laptops with barely enough power to be used for academic reasons or some Macs? It is rather easy for me to imagine this crap being pulled with a Mac, but considering the costs and this being the American school system anything that isn't cheap as hell is foreign to me.
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Re: School hands out laptops, uses their webcams to spy on students
« Reply #29 on: February 20, 2010, 05:27:30 pm »

It said they were Mac laptops.  That alone is enough to make me refuse to take one.
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