Last Updated on December 2, 2019 by Christopher G Mendla
If you haven’t heard about this, it should send some shivers down the old spine. What happened was that the Lower Merion School district purchased laptops for students. They also purchased software that was supposedly to be used to retrieve lost or stolen laptops by turning the computer’s camera on.
The allegations against the Lower Merion School district is that they had turned the webcams on and recorded pictures of students. Recent information has come out that thousands of photographs of children were taken. This Philly Com Article has more details.
This needs to be thoroughly investigated and addressed. It is disturbing on many levels:
- Unauthorized surveillance
- The audacity of those willing to authorize such a program
- The fact that minors were under surveillance
- The fact that innocent family members were also photographed.
I think that people throughout the country should ask their school boards if any such spying is occurring.