Judge Orders School To Alert Students, Parents To Webcam Photos Taken: "As the details of more extensive webcam spying by the Lower Merion school district has broken (originally, the school suggested it had only taken webcam images 42 times, but the details noted
58,000 photos were taken -- a bit of a difference. Now a magistrate judge has ordered the school district to
alert students and parents who were in those photos of their existence, and allow the students to see the images -- though not to get copies of them. The students will actually have the right to view the images without their parents and to exclude 'sensitive' photos from being seen by their parents.
Of course, one thing that hasn't been answered yet is how widely this sort of software is used in other schools. When the Lower Merion story broke, we pointed to a PBS Fronline episode where an IT guy
proudly showed off similar technology, joking about his ability to secretly spy on kids. This clearly isn't something that was just used in a single school. You have to wonder if other schools are deleting evidence now... or realizing they should be telling their students about what kind of photos they've been storing of students.
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