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Re:School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at scho... by 3dFlatLander on Thursday February 18, 2010 @11:07AM (#1134437)
To be fair to the school shown in that particular documentary, they weren't looking at the students through a webcam. It looks like they're using a remote desktop program to look at the students desktop. He explained that many students use the webcam program as a mirror to look at themselves or just mess around.
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Re:School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at scho... by mkyc on Friday February 19, 2010 @03:04AM (#1136460)
The students and parents are also presumably fully aware. If on the other hand they were unaware, the student's mistake of opening a webcam program would not reduce culpability.
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