"At the very least they should have to pay out %BIGBUX for invasion of privacy by an authority figure or some such."
Who do you propose pay these bigbux? The school administrators who's only interest was in saving money - giving approval to an idea that would recover stolen school property? The IT department head who didn't thoroughly research what his forum buddies told him was a good idea because they use it? The IT grunt without enough real world experience to know how serious these abuses really were? Or how about the school and the district itself? Let all the "affected" families sue the school district for untold damages. Now the schools have to cut back on programs, activities, events, sports, library books, computers, etc. Millions wasted in legal fees and pay-outs. Who suffers? Every family in the district! It's my school tax dollars you will be giving to these families who have not been damaged AT ALL. So I disagree. Fire the decision makers, slap the abusers with whatever punishment is deemed necessary and get on with life. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
