It was really scary. Here's the intro from the article.
A webcam spying scandal at a suburban Philadelphia school district is broadening, with lawyers claiming the district secretly snapped thousands of webcam images of students using school-issued laptops without the pupils’ knowledge or consent.
Some of the images included pictures of youths at home, in bed or even “partially dressed,” according to a Thursday filing in the case. Pupils’ online chats were also captured, as well as a record of the websites they visited.
I'm all for the benefits of Technology in the schools but, really, someone should have known better that to allow the laptop's webcams to be used to take pictures of students. The school states that they only used the webcam to take pictures when the laptop was reported stolen. There, however, seem to be many students and their families that say otherwise.
I have been a bit wary of webcams myself. Several years ago I read that hackers can gain access to your home webcam. Therefore, when it was time for me to purchase a webcam, I bought one that comes with a built-in cover that you can raise and lower. I only have the cover up when I am actively using the webcam.
It seems that my concerns haven't been that far off the mark judging by the above article. Are you comfortable having your webcam's beady little eye directed at you all the time?
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