School District Sued Over Laptop Webcam Peeping

This morning on MSNBC, the student's lawyer stated that the student, 16 year old Blake Robbins, had been eating Mike and Ike candy in front of the Macbook assigned to him by his school, in his own home. The attorney reported that the school administrator had then accused the student of using illegal drugs, after seeing him eating the candy, in a webcam image. School officials have claimed the webcams were activated 42 times in the past 14 months only to specifically find lost or stolen computers and that only two IT personnel were able to do this. The lawyer stated his client's laptop had not been reported stolen or lost.
I'm sure more details will be revealed in this case. Multiple news reports state the FBI has begun looking into the case to see if federal wiretap and privacy laws had been violated. Students have begun to speak out online, stating the webcam lights would come on seemingly at random.
The case is fast becoming an internet meme, with parody T-shirts already being sold online and at least one Facebook group formed that now has over 500 members.


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