School sued because of Misusing Laptop

Because careful not utilize information technology to their students, a school in the suburbs of Pennsylvania, shall pay compensation 610,000 U.S. dollars, or approximately USD 5.5 billion. This case originated when The Lower Merion School District 1800 to distribute laptops to students.

In order to secure the laptop, the school install secret software that can access the webcam secretly. The aim to track the presence of these laptops if at any time is lost or stolen. However, the breakthrough was never communicated with parents, even it turns out later misused.

In February, a student named Blake Robbins and his parents sued the school because of privacy felt spied upon. In the lawsuit, they accuse the school record thousands of photos without the permission of his home, family, Blake even when in bed.

The lawsuit was filed after the school accused Blake to sell and use illegal drugs. Accusations based school photographs that recorded when Blake was at home. Not only is Blake, the school seems to spy on other students by enabling the webcam tracking system. In fact, students who spied on his laptop that has never reported missing. In total there are 30 000 photos taken through the school system that secret.

When the counter claim of privacy violation performed Blake's parents, the school was absent and never admitted intentionally memeta spy on their students to know the activity. Schools remained adamant, the system was installed to track if a laptop is lost at any time.

However, to resolve this case, the school finally agreed to end it out of court. The Lower Merion School District willing to pay an indemnity of 185,000 U.S. dollars to students who are disadvantaged and 425,000 U.S. dollars for attorneys' fees. Well, right, use of technology must not violate any privacy despite good intentions.

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