Thousands of webcam images have been found in the school district being sued
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#2how do you get a society where something like this is uncovered, and half of the comments are abusing the family that uncovered it?
oh, and the past tense of shine is shone :)
Re: Thousands of webcam images have been found in the school district being sued
#3where there is smoke, there is fire. Sounds to me like what initially was an ability to view students working in school quickly digressed into illegal abuse of the deployment. That district's insurance company must be terrified at this point, because lawyers are going to come out of the woodwork to jump on this one.
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#4Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Re: Thousands of webcam images have been found in the school district being sued
#5how do you get a society where something like this is uncovered, and half of the comments are abusing the family that uncovered it? oh, and the past tense of shine is shone :)
the same society that says "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear"
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#6I'm glad that somebody is still tracking this story, and it hasn't just dropped on the ground.
Too often, it seems, a news story outrages us, but the furor quickly dies down. In the end, nobody even notices the ritual scapegoat.
A little while back, somebody proposed here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1183587 ) a web app that would allow us to follow a news story entire life. This reminds of that, and why it would be a good idea.
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#7Absolutely disgusting. I'm happy this case is being treated seriously and that (as it appears) there's the hope of action being taken against these school administrators.
I've thought for years that parents place far too much trust in public-school staff.
Re: Thousands of webcam images have been found in the school district being sued
#8how do you get a society where something like this is uncovered, and half of the comments are abusing the family that uncovered it? oh, and the past tense of shine is shone :)
I've heard of more than one hacker installing remote webcam software on their laptops, to track it if it were lost or stolen. The commenters seem to think this is the same sort of thing. Obviously anyone who's been following this story, or has read that article carefully, knows there's a whole bunch of legal and moral issues involved, but it's easy to get the impression from casually reading the article that it was simply a matter of tracking stolen property.
Re: Thousands of webcam images have been found in the school district being sued
#9Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Populus.
Re: Thousands of webcam images have been found in the school district being sued
#10where there is smoke, there is fire. Sounds to me like what initially was an ability to view students working in school quickly digressed into illegal abuse of the deployment. That district's insurance company must be terrified at this point, because lawyers are going to come out of the woodwork to jump on this one.
One nude photo of a student changing, and this is going to turn to a shitstorm.