A school district in Pennsylvania placed a theft detection feature on the laptop computers that they issued to students. Then a laptop appeared to be missing, and the district activated the feature, which consists of a webcam which would take a photo of the student in his home, if in fact he had the laptop there without having been issued the laptop in the prescribed manner. Naturally, the student and his family protested that photographing the student in his home was fundamentally an invasion of privacy and are taking action against the school district. What do you think? Should the school district prevail in its argument that the webcam was used for only the limited purpose of finding the laptop and then recovering it? Go to Philadelphia School Webcam to read more about what happened and the points of view of the opposing parties.
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