Well, the way I see things, they had the right to track and remotely access a student laptop, since it was school property. However, they failed to notify the students and/or parents that they *could* do this. There needs to be a severe enough punishment, that the next person who gets a brilliant idea to "spy" on kids thinks twice about doing it without clear authorization and notification of both the parents and the students.
That's *if* you are going to be providing the students with laptops. I see the very valid question about whether or not to issue the laptops to the students, however, that's not an issue here, as that is a fait accompli and I don't see the point of asking that question now. That's a question that should have been asked when the decision was first made to issue the laptops. My *guess* is that they got a grant from somewhere to buy a bunch of laptops, probably from Apple themselves, since they chose a Macbook. John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Jon Harris [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 12:52 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Friday OT - Web cam case You forgot to take away the laptops or make the students pay for them. I know the county I live is does not even want students laptops on campus, let alone is willing to pay for them. If they are so worried about the theif issue then let the families pay for them and see if they want to cough up the %BIGBUX% for MacBooks. Jon On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Dennis Melahn <[email protected]> wrote: "At the very least they should have to pay out %BIGBUX for invasion of privacy by an authority figure or some such." Who do you propose pay these bigbux? The school administrators who's only interest was in saving money - giving approval to an idea that would recover stolen school property? The IT department head who didn't thoroughly research what his forum buddies told him was a good idea because they use it? The IT grunt without enough real world experience to know how serious these abuses really were? Or how about the school and the district itself? Let all the "affected" families sue the school district for untold damages. Now the schools have to cut back on programs, activities, events, sports, library books, computers, etc. Millions wasted in legal fees and pay-outs. Who suffers? Every family in the district! It's my school tax dollars you will be giving to these families who have not been damaged AT ALL. So I disagree. Fire the decision makers, slap the abusers with whatever punishment is deemed necessary and get on with life. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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