If the child is under no complusion to be taking the laptop home, then it's his fault. If the school requires him to do his homework on it or something, then yeah there's a legal problem.
Edit: he's a dumbass for not putting a piece of duct tape over the camera in the first place. that's the first thing I'd have done if I knew the school could remotely access the computer or had software installed like that
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There's a legal problem anyways. They have no reason to be taking pictures of him because they didn't get the insurance, especially the pictures of him undressing. Creepy.
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A story similar to this happened near me, and if I'm not mistaken this isn't the same guy. The school distributed laptops with webcams, some guy gets pictures snapped of him taking some illegal pill, and he's taken to court saying it's a Mike and Ike. Also, teh hawtest child pr0nz on the web were probably taken by this school.
I think it is complete illegal for such a function because it can get more information than necessary. (and also unhelpful information? because sometimes pictures will not help you get a location?)
Why didn't they just place something like GPS chips in each of them?
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What I'm still trying to figure out is why the school bought macs...
And the kid's an idiot for not stopping all running processes for school programs.
It's wrong for the school to take pictures without telling the student and parents, but it seems that they did put it on the contract. I think that it is the fault of the parents for blindly signing a legal contract.
Why didn't they just place something like GPS chips in each of them?
Because then they wouldn't be able to take kiddie porn and blame it on insurance payments.
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>be faceless void >mfw I have no face
I'd have installed linux on it in the first place, I don't want any school bloatware on MY computer.
Legally, you aren't allowed to take pictures or videos of anyone without their consent, but the legal contract gave consent, so it was just silly parents.
Red classic.
"In short, their absurdities are so extreme that it is painful even to quote them."
Sounds a little suspicious to me. The software being mentioned (which I think is standard anti-theft on Apple computers with a webcam) is only meant to be used if the laptop is suspected to have been stolen. Checking up on students via the webcam without reasonable suspicion that they have made off with the computer is a bit Orwellian.
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