{"id":3867,"date":"2010-02-18T14:28:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:16:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:16:26","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3867","title":{"rendered":"Fourth Amendment news&#8211;Schools and privacy, actually, lack thereof"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PA: School district sued for using laptop cameras to spy on students<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Pennsylvania school district has been sued for allegedly giving its students laptops and then spying on its students at home through cameras on the laptops. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/dailynews\/breaking\/news\/84715297.html\">Lower Merion School District sued for cyber spying on students<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lower Merion School District officials brag that they give every one of their 1,800 high-schoolers laptop computers to &#8220;ensure that all students have 24\/7 access to school-based resources.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Instead, they ensured they got 24\/7 access to students&#8217; private lives by secretly installing webcams they remotely control to spy on teens and their families at home, according to a federal, class-action lawsuit filed this week in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>The suit alleges the covert cameras violate everything from the Fourth Amendment to wiretapping, electronic communications and computer fraud laws.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A link to the suit is <a href=\"http:\/\/media.philly.com\/documents\/robbins17.pdf\">here<\/a>. The story and the pdf of the suit are on Philly.com.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MA: Drug dog sweep of school<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In Pemroke, MA, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pembrokexpress.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=2182:the-right-opinion-gone-to-the-dogs&amp;catid=3:letters-a-commentary&amp;Itemid=7\">police used drug dogs to conduct a sweep of a school<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3867\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}