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sharpsteve2003
02-22-2010, 06:57 AM
This clip is from PBS FRONTLINE: Digital Nation: Life on the Virtual Frontier. This is from segment 4 of the show titled Teaching with Technology. The Assistant Principal demonstrates how he spies on kids by accessing student laptops and watches them and what they are doing and even take pics of the kids.

YouTube - Principal Shows how He Spies on Kids with Laptop and Snaps Pics with Web Cam (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF8D1ORNXPo)

Watch the entire show here:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/digitalnation/view/

constituent
02-22-2010, 07:22 AM
that's nothing unique... i believe that's the "go to mac" feature.

what's scary is to think of all that money the school district dropped w/ apple outfitting all those classrooms. talk about largesse, sweet jeebus on the cross, man.

TonySutton
02-22-2010, 07:26 AM
just need to tape over the camera lens so you cant be spied on

Kludge
02-22-2010, 07:27 AM
I think the school does have a right (its their property & responsibility, after all) to make sure these educational tools are JUST educational tools, but.... it´s still extremely intrusive. The school should (and I expect they do) make sure all students and parents know they can be monitored at any time without notice. They went on the news with it, so they´re hardly being secretive about it. Really, though, I can´t imagine any way a school can reasonably justify spending money on giving all students a laptop, and what this vice principal said seems to suggest they are ineffective and redundant waste. I´m sure they were encouraged by government grant money....... >.>


just need to tape over the camera lens so you cant be spied on

I imagine there´s a rule against that. The school purchased laptops with cameras in them for a reason.

johngr
02-22-2010, 07:35 AM
and you seem pretty sanguine about the kids being spied on, bitch.

JoshLowry
02-22-2010, 10:50 AM
and you seem pretty sanguine about the kids being spied on, bitch.

Read the forum guidelines please.

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constituent
02-22-2010, 10:53 AM
and you seem pretty sanguine about the kids being spied on, bitch.

ho.

constituent
02-22-2010, 10:54 AM
Read the forum guidelines please.

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oh, sorry.

n/m johngr, you're not a ho.

Freedom 4 all
02-22-2010, 10:59 AM
I think the school does have a right (its their property & responsibility, after all) to make sure these educational tools are JUST educational tools, but.... it´s still extremely intrusive. The school should (and I expect they do) make sure all students and parents know they can be monitored at any time without notice. They went on the news with it, so they´re hardly being secretive about it.
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They went on the news with it AFTER a whole pile of parents sued. They originally had no idea they were being spied on.

Krugerrand
02-22-2010, 11:00 AM
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I read that as directed towards the PBS person doing the interview.

evilfunnystuff
02-22-2010, 11:57 AM
if i was in one of these schools id be gettin naked in front of them and try to get them busted for child porn in an attempt to stop them from doin this

haaaylee
02-22-2010, 11:58 AM
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I believe his was referring to the women in the video.

johngr
02-22-2010, 12:15 PM
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Listen to the audio at the end of the clip, to wit: "Most of the adults at the school were actually pretty sanguine about the kids being so easily distracted." I was insulting the PBS bitch. Her muted tone could not hide the authoritarian entitlement sensibility in her voice. PBS bitches really set me off but if insulting PBS bitches is against the rules, I apologize and it won't happen again.

Seriously, it wasn't clear whom that was directed at. I should have made that clear.

Agorism
02-22-2010, 12:23 PM
This guy is an idiot for his plan.

Why not hide cameras in the lockerooms and bathrooms to make sure the students are behaving?

GunnyFreedom
02-22-2010, 12:49 PM
To be fair, this story (while also disturbing) is nothing like the other story where a camera was remotely activated to take pictures. In this case, the students were already using PhotoBooth, and the administrator was simply screen-sharing and being presented with what was already on the student's laptop.

Obviously that's not to say that it's OK, but the ability to do screen-sharing is embedded into MacOS and iChat. I use the heck out of it to do remote support all the time. If the remote machine has PhotoBooth up, I will see an image of the client. If it does not, then I will not.

No, this spying on the kids like this is still pretty awful, and it conditions them to accept this authoritarian thought-crime-monitoring behavior for when they become adults. So I'm not excusing it, but I'm just saying that this is rather different than the other story.

Of course, a remote operator could in fact LAUNCH PhotoBooth and take a capture, but that would (as you saw in the video) be pretty obvious...more obvious even than taking a capture once PhotoBooth was already opened.

Kludge
02-22-2010, 03:25 PM
I read that as directed towards the PBS person doing the interview.

So did I. :x

sharpsteve2003
02-22-2010, 06:24 PM
This video is now in this article

School Spycams Case Explodes As Feds Initiate Probe
http://www.prisonplanet.com/school-spycams-case-explodes-as-feds-initiate-probe.html

BlackTerrel
02-22-2010, 07:03 PM
My friend sent this to me earlier today... was going to post it here. Talk about creepy!!

SelfTaught
02-22-2010, 07:09 PM
oh, sorry.

n/m johngr, you're not a ho.

roffle

sharpsteve2003
02-23-2010, 12:44 AM
My friend sent this to me earlier today... was going to post it here. Talk about creepy!!

Glad to see it is getting shared.

Agorism
02-23-2010, 12:46 AM
Does he have video cameras in the lady's shower rooms too?