From “Clash of privacy, students’ laptops”:
“Now there’s this word from a suburban Philadelphia school district, where officials admit they remotely activated the webcams to find missing laptops and nothing more. But at least one student has his doubt…[Blake] Robbins learned he was photographed when an assistant principal approached him and accused him of engaging in improper behavior at home…
“The school district should shut down the webcams for good and look to some other, less intrusive technology to keep tabs o laptops. Big Brother may not like it, but it’s the right thing to do.”
WATCHDOG: Two good ones in a row for the New Era, approaching a record! A wag of the tail.