Laptop Spying

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.

Evansville Vanderburgh School Corporation

1. Microsoft Windows XP
2. There is some for sure, working on finding out what it is
3. Students prohibited from using any other computer, or installing their own software on provided computers.
4. Administrators can take control of the laptop, and take screenshots. Students subject to laptop checks.

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.

Yuma Catholic High School

1. Compaq laptops running Windows
2. No idea, sorry.
3. I believe they are prohibited, but it's been a long time since I've been involved with the school.
4. website: http://yumacatholic.org/index.asp