Thursday, May 13, 2010

FBI Gets Evidence In Student Webcam Scandal

A federal judge has granted the FBI access to evidence linked to a webcam scandal at a Philadelphia suburban school district.

Federal prosecutors in Pennsylvania said they were investigating “possible criminal conduct” (.pdf) in the 6,900-student Lower Merion School District.

U.S. District Judge Jan DuBois is presiding over a federal civil lawsuit alleging the district secretly snapped tens of thousands of webcam images (.pdf) of students using school-issued laptops, without the pupils’ knowledge or consent...