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School Remotely Spies on Kids with Laptop Webcam
A law enforcement official with knowledge of the case says the FBI has opened a criminal investigation into a Pennsylvania school district accused of activating webcams inside students’ homes without their knowledge.
The cameras came with the Apple computers that the school district had distributed to all of its 1,800 students.
The official, speaking to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity, says the FBI will explore whether Lower Merion School District officials broke any federal wiretap or computer intrusion laws.
Lower Merion officials say they remotely activated webcams 42 times to find missing student laptops in the past 14 months, but never did so in order to spy on students, as a recent lawsuit claims. Superintendent Dr. Christopher McGinley has now promised that the feature won’t be used again without written notification to students and their parents.
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