Grafton students to get netbooks
September 15, 2012 at 2:45 am in Grand Forks Herald
Each freshman at Grafton (N.D.) High School will receive a new netbook computer to use for school work. The Grafton School Board unanimously approved the spending of $40,000 for the computers, according to the Grafton Record newspaper. Continue Reading
Better check the computers for School District-installed spyware!
Remember the school district in Pennsylvania, that used the computer’s built-in camera to spy on students at home, so they could see who was dealing drugs or whatever? The district would turn on the computer camera remotely to snoop.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/webcam-spy-settlement/
“A suburban Philadelphia school district is agreeing to pay $610,000 to settle two lawsuits brought by students who were victims of a webcam spying scandal in which high school-issued laptops secretly snapped thousands of pictures of pupils.
The agreed payout by the Lower Merion School District comes two months after federal authorities announced they would not prosecute administrators.”
I bet there’s a hundred ways the Grafton School District could use the computers to spy on the kids without a valid search warrant. Perhaps as easily as confiscating the computer periodically to do a manual inspection of the documents and files. They’ll claim the students have “no expectation of privacy”; and politicians and prosecutors who wipe their tuckus with the Constitution will agree.
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Remember the story of the little high school somewhere in ND where the principal’s wife worked in a bank and saw an 18 year-old student smoking in the strip mall parking lot? She called her husband and the student was not allowed to go to the Prom. She went to court and had the decision overturned. Talk about school overreach.
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