Somebody’s fibbing in the case of a Pennsylvania school that using Webcams in loaned laptops, and now the FBI may have to sort out the truth.
CNN reports that federal authorities are investigating the case of 15-year-old Blake Robbins v. the Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania, a class action lawsuit uncovered by BoingBoing last week. The FBI hasn’t confirmed the investigation; CNN’s report comes from an anonymous police official, who says the feds will look into whether federal wiretap or computer intrusion laws were violated.
In the lawsuit, Robbins claims that an assistant principal at Harriton High School used photos from his laptop’s Web cam to accuse him of “improper behavior.” He later told an ABC News affiliate that the school mistook a pill-shaped Mike & Ike candy for drugs.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/022210-school-spycam-case-raises-fbi.html
