A suburban Philadelphia school is accused of accessing school issued laptops and taking pictures of students at their homes. Some of the pictures include a boy asleep in bed and a half dressed student in their homes. Screenshots of instant messages were taken as well. This week there was a motion filed by the Robbins family attorney saying the school district remotely accessed the computer their sun was issued over 400 times last fall.
The motion claimed that the LANRev software the school district used to track stolen, lost of missing laptops, took thousands of snapshots of numerous other students in their homes and many of them never reported their laptops missing. Some images were of a student with a similar name of a student that did report their laptop missing.
The school district has been sued by the Robbins family already this year when the principal accused their son of selling drugs and used a snapshot from the laptop as evidence. The Robbins family said they caught there son eating candy in his room, not pills or other drugs. The motion asked the judge for access to the admin of the software for the school district computers. The admin stated they only accessed computers at the school’s request, but all computer in her possession were imaged and will be returned to her within 48 hours. She has been put on paid leave.
This is pretty bad for anyone using this type of software, but really, if you use it for what’s it’s intended, things like this will not happen. You can read the entire story here.
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