> " > A Pennsylvania school district says it remotely activated webcams 42 > times > to find missing student laptops, but never did so to spy on students, > as a > lawsuit claims. > > Lower Merion School District spokesman Doug Young says the district > recovered 28 of those laptops over 14 months. The others remain > missing. > The district has about 2,300 student laptops. > ... > Young tells The Associated Press that only two technology department > employees were authorized to activate the cameras - and only to locate > missing laptops. > ... >
[Tomas L. Byrnes] IANAL, but I have had responsibility for government networks, and the guidance I always had to follow said that any "search" or "surveillance" by or on behalf of a government agency had to be by a LEO, and pursuant to a duly issued warrant, or was illegal. So, if "only two employees' were capable of activating the cams, based on what I was bound by (admittedly, federal and in the military), they had better have been sworn officers, and had a warrant, or it's a violation of the federal wiretap/surveillance statutes. It would be different if they were a private agency tracking their private property. Government agencies are subject to a much higher requirement before starting surveillance, and for custody of any data gathered thereby. By my reading, this is a federal criminal case in the making. Once again, IANAL. These are merely my opinions. I speak only for myself. Etc. Etc. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
