Laptop Spying

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What future will we as a society choose? A future based on free software, or one where high school students have to cover their webcams with tape?

If you're with us, here's the plan: Create a listing of all school systems that provide every student with a laptop that includes:

  1. OS the laptops run
  2. Any security or monitoring software that's included
  3. Whether students are prohibited from using their own computers running free software
  4. A list of any additionally nasty characteristics on the provided laptops (beyond simply including proprietary software) like locked out features or remote monitoring software.

Example:

Lower Merion School District

  1. Mac OS X
  2. LANRev
  3. Students prohibited from using any other computer, or installing their own software on provided computers.
  4. Administrators can take screenshots, take photos from webcam, browse files. Administrators allegedly used webcam photos they took in students' homes as a basis for disciplinary measures.