[clug] [OT] ABC's Law Report: remote webcam activation on student laptops

[Alex (Maxious) Sadleir]

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Alex Satrapa <grail at goldweb.com.au> wrote:
> On 05/05/2010, at 12:23 , Troy Heland wrote:
>
>> There are other questions here that should be asked:
>>
>> If the student in question was taking pills in the nude would the Deputy
>> Principle still have confronted the student with the images?  I doubt it.
>
> Let's not forget the legality of surveilling people in their own homes without their permission.
>
> Then there's the question of what happened to all the surveillance they "didn't collect" of boys and girls in the nude.  After all, they weren't supposed to be collecting surveillance in the first place.

Or the surveillance that they 'didn't collect' but somehow lead them
to an email discussion in which they said using the webcams like
watching "a little LMSD [the school in question] soap opera." -
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gdwlE3DpcMD9gNAnFMrQ7iNHCS6AD9F4DA500