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WebcamGate - The High School Spying Scandal
Description
From 2008-10, the Lower Merion School District - in suburban Philadelphia - issued laptops to more than 2,300 high school students for school and home use. What they didn’t tell the kids or their parents was that the district loaded the laptops with secret software that gave officials the ability to remotely take photos from those laptops. What followed was WebcamGate - one of the biggest invasion of privacy incidents in the nation’s history.
Sources
https://time.com/7275031/spy-high-true-story-prime-video/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_District
https://time.com/7275031/spy-high-true-story-prime-video/
Image: by Matheus Bertelli - https://www.pexels.com/photo/modern-video-camera-hanging-on-display-of-laptop-7172701/"
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