Even More Troubles for the Lower Merion School District

Today has been a rough day for the already embattled Lower Merion School District, the well-to-do suburban Philadelphia school district accused of spying on students in their own homes through school-issued, webcam-enabled laptop computers. First, Friday morning brought with it a report in The Philadelphia Inquirer that, despite repeated assertions to the contrary by the [...]

Laptop Spying Scandal Heats Up

Philadelphia Inquirer: Lawyer: Laptops Took Thousands of Images The system that Lower Merion school officials used to track lost and stolen laptops wound up secretly capturing thousands of images, including photographs of students in their homes, Web sites they visited, and excerpts of their online chats, says a new motion filed in a suit against [...]

Changes I Can’t Believe In

Frequent America’s Right commenter Michelle Zhang has a unique perspective on the laptop-spying story, as she attended high school in the district where the secret webcam surveillance took place. In her first piece for America’s Right, Michelle discusses her reaction to the unfolding story. I speak for all of us here in welcoming Michelle to [...]

Standstill Order Expected in School Spying Case (UPDATE: Order Approved)

A standstill order is expected today from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on the case of Lower Merion School District’s alleged practice of spying on students in their own homes through the use of school-issued, webcam-equipped laptop computers. The order is designed to provide all sides with a chance to better assess the technological issues [...]

Two Mike & Ikes and One Motion

If it weren’t so gosh-darned serious, it would be funny. On the late local NBC news following the Vancouver Olympics about an hour ago (Friday night), reporters interviewed Blake Robbins and his family, the folks at the center of the class action lawsuit filed against a Main Line school district which had been allegedly spying [...]

FBI Gets Involved in School Spying Case

According to the Associated Press, by way of the local Philadelphia ABC affiliate, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has tossed its hat into the ring with regard to Lower Merion School District’s alleged surveillance of students in their own homes by way of remote access to webcam-equipped laptop computers issued by the district’s two high [...]

Spying PA School District Responds, Admits to Lack of Notice, Remote Access

Yesterday evening, America’s Right reported the story of a class action lawsuit filed in Federal Court in Philadelphia alleging that the Lower Merion School District had been spying on students and students’ families in their own homes through the use of remotely accessible webcams on laptops which had been distributed to each of the district’s [...]

Lawsuit: PA School District Using School-Issued Laptop Webcams to Spy on Students

A class action lawsuit filed late yesterday in Federal Court in Philadelphia has shed light on a secret surveillance program targeting Americans, but this particular operation is not being run by the FBI or the NSA. It’s being run by the Lower Merion School District, in the old-money Main Line suburbs of Philadelphia, PA. The [...]