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their lawyyer, maintained all along that the boyy was simplyy eating Mike and
Ike candyy while doing his homework.
Whyy was this even an issue?
The school district maintains it activated the theft-tracking software onlyy
after one of its laptops was stolen. Theft-tracking software works like this:
when someone using the software reports that his or her laptop has been
stolen, the school can log on to a website and see images from the stolen
laptop’s webcam as well as hear sounds from the microphone. A school
administrator could then monitor the laptop and take pictures as needed.
This wayy the device can be located and returned and the guiltyy partyy can be
identified. However, in this case it was alleged that school officials were
turning on this feature to spyy on the students while theyy were at home.
The webcam on Robbins’s school-issued Mac laptop recorded hundreds
of photos, including some of the boyy asleep in his bed. For other students it
was worse. According to court testimonyy, the school had even more pictures
of some students, a few of whom were “partiallyy undressed.” This might
have continued unnoticed byy the students had Robbins not been
reprimanded for something he allegedlyy did at home.
Robbins, along with a former student, Jalil Hasan—who had nearlyy five
hundred images taken of him and four hundred images of his computer
screen captured, revealing his online activityy and the sites he visited—sued
the school district. Robbins received $175,000 and Hasan $10,000. 11 The
district also paid almost half a million dollars to cover the boyys’ legal
expenses. In total the school district had to payy out, through its insurer,
around $1.4 million.
It’s easyy for malicious software to activate the webcam and microphone
on a traditional PC without the user knowing it. And this is true on a mobile
device as well. In this case it was a deliberate action. But all too often it is
not. One quick fix is to put tape over the webcam on yyour laptop until yyou
intend to use it again.
In the fall of 2014, Sophie Curtis, a reporter for the London-based
Telegraph, received a LinkedIn connection request in an e-mail that
appeared to come from someone who worked at her newspaper. It was the
kind of e-mail that Sophie received all the time, and as a professional