Monday, October 11, 2010

Pa. school settles 2 webcam spy lawsuits for $610K - Boston.com

Pa. school settles 2 webcam spy lawsuits for $610K - Boston.com

Pa. school settles 2 webcam spy lawsuits for $610K

By Maryclaire Dale
Associated Press Writer / October 11, 2010
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PHILADELPHIA—A Philadelphia-area school district agreed Monday to pay $610,000 to settle two lawsuits over secret photos taken on school-issued laptops.

The Lower Merion School District admitted it captured thousands of webcam photographs and screen shots from student laptops in a misguided effort to locate missing computers.

Harriton High School student Blake Robbins, then 15, charged in an explosive civil-rights lawsuit filed in February that the district used its remote tracking technology to spy on him inside his home. Later evidence unearthed in the case showed that he was photographed 400 times in a

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