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27 Feb 2010, 3:24 pm
2-27-2010 Pennsylvania:Lower Merion Schools Must Preserve Laptop DataPHILADELPHIA - A federal court judge has ordered Lower Merion School District employees not to re-activate the laptop theft recovery program that is the focus of a high school student's cyber-spying claims.Harriton High School sophomore Blake Robbins and his parents contend in their lawsuit he was disciplined as a result of a [read post]
2 Sep 2021, 10:06 am
Being the first suburb on the Main Line, Lower Merion is home to many of the region’s wealthy residents. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 8:05 am
Lower Merion School District Assistant Principal Lindy Matsko used remotely activated school issued webcams to spy on students. [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 7:44 pm
Lower Merion School District employees activated the web cameras and tracking software on laptops they gave to high school students about 80 times in the past two school years, snapping nearly 56,000 images that included photos of students, pictures inside their homes and copies of the programs or files running on their screens, district investigators have concluded. [read post]
17 Apr 2010, 4:54 am
The newspapers Friday were filled with disturbing revelations: The Lower Merion School District today acknowledged that investigators reviewing its controversial laptop tracking program have recovered "a substantial number of webcam photos" and that they expect to soon start notifying parents whose children were photographed. [read post]
7 Mar 2010, 7:33 am
Two IT employees at Pennsylvania’s Lower Merion School District have been put on administrative leave, and pictures taken from Webcams on school-issued computers have been turned over to the local police department, according to the attorney of one of the employees now on leave. [read post]
16 Sep 2016, 5:01 am
Another district, which like Lower Merion geographically abuts the school district in which I live, spends $16,000 per student and is “consistently ranked higher than Lower Merion in state and national surveys. [read post]
4 May 2010, 12:55 pm
In the "famous last words" category, on ABAJ.com by Martha Neil: Student Warned Defendant School Dist. in ‘08 of Potential Webcam Privacy Peril: Lower Merion School District would have the ability to monitor students remotely, via the laptops' webcams, and "I could see not informing parents and students of this fact causing a huge uproar," the unidentified teen said in an e-mail reviewed by the Philadelphia Inquirer. [read post]
18 May 2010, 10:20 am
Students who were photographed at home by the Lower Merion School District IT department will have the opportunity to see the photos thanks to a court order issued Friday. [read post]
18 Feb 2010, 11:22 pm
In a court filing (Blake J Robbins v Lower Merion School District), the parents of student Blake Robbins are suing the school district for: invasion of privacy theft of personal information violation of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act abrogating the Computer Fraud Abuse Act abridging the Stored Communications Act running afoul of section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act and ignoring the 4th Amendment to the United States Constitution the… [read post]
18 Aug 2010, 5:25 am
“Federal prosecutors on Tuesday closed their investigation into Lower Merion School District’s secret use of software to track student laptops, saying they found no evidence that anyone intentionally committed a crime. [read post]
18 Feb 2010, 11:33 am
Lower Merion School District (filed a week ago), 2. [read post]
22 Feb 2010, 1:50 pm
According to a claim filed against Lower Merion (suburb of Philadelphia, PA) School District in federal court, the school district used school provided laptop webcams to spy on students in their homes, leaving the families to be potentially caught in compromising positions. [read post]
22 Feb 2010, 3:54 pm
As a Fort Lauderdale cyber crime criminal defense attorney, I was very interested in the story of the Robbins family’s lawsuit against the Lower Merion School District. [read post]
16 Apr 2010, 12:44 pm
This is probably the most disgusting thing you'll read today:The system that Lower Merion school officials used to track lost and stolen laptops wound up secretly capturing thousands of images, including photographs of students in their homes, Web sites they visited, and excerpts of their online chats, says a new motion filed in a suit against the district.More than once, the motion asserts, the camera on Robbins' school-issued laptop took photos of… [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 1:30 pm
The agreed payout by the Lower Merion School District comes two months after federal authorities announced they would not prosecute administrators. [read post]
27 Jul 2010, 2:19 pm
The brouhaha commenced in February, when a student of Lower Merion School District was called into an administrator’s office. [read post]
16 Apr 2010, 1:10 pm
He’s the kid who sued the Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania, asserting that district employees were spying on him and other kids through webcams installed on “free” laptops distributed by the district. [read post]
13 Oct 2010, 3:09 am
Haltzman.Also see this report from CBS Philly: Lower Merion School District Settles Webcam Spy Lawsuits For $610K- Garry J. [read post]
12 Oct 2010, 10:35 am
The Lower Merion School District board of directors released a statement Tuesday morning, saying that it decided to settle in order to move on and "protect the interests of our taxpayers," even if that meant not being able to share its own side of the story. [read post]
