School Slammed In Webcam Spy Case

Blake Robbins, 15, and family were spied on in their home by his school

U.S. District Judge, Jan E. DuBois, has granted the FBI access to the 58,000 images the Lower Merion School District secretly snapped of their students at home, via webcam spyware installed on laptops issued to kids attending Harriton High in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The name of the case is Blake Robbins v. Lower Merion School District. People all over the internet continue to slam the school for this severe privacy breach.

The FBI intends to review the evidence to ascertain whether any laws have been broken. Due to this terrible case, the U.S. Congress has finally proposed legislation, the Surreptitious Video Surveillance Act, to increase prison penalties for those that illegally spy on people in their homes or rented properties, as there is a reasonable expectation to privacy in said situations.

Considering the FBI engages in the same misconduct against certain citizens, such as innocent journalists, bloggers and scientists, the Judiciary Report would be surprised if they brought charges in this case, which are very warranted.

The school district has admitted they did indeed secretly capture thousands of images of students and their families in their homes. The lawyer for Blake Robbins believes, as the Judiciary Report does, some of the evidence showing people secretly photographed in their homes whilst nude, was destroyed by the perverted school IT techs.

It takes an exceptionally nasty, perverse and mentally ill person to secretly spy on someone in their home, as it is a sheer abomination that denotes voyeurism.

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Judge: FBI can review Lower Merion webcam photos

Posted on Tue, May. 11, 2010 ...Acting on a request from federal prosecutors, U.S. District Judge Jan E. DuBois agreed to broaden an earlier order that limited the release of the photos to the students or their parents and lawyers. His order was signed Friday and made public Monday.

FBI agents and prosecutors want to review the images to see whether any laws were broken when school district employees activated a tracking system that snapped photos and copied screen images from lost or stolen laptops.

Lower Merion school officials have acknowledged poor planning and oversight led the tracking system to capture at least 50,000 images - some showing teens or their relatives in their homes - from laptops that had already been returned to students...

Robbins has filed a lawsuit alleging the monitoring represented an invasion of students' privacy...

http://www.philly.com

School Destroyed Evidence In Webcam Spying Case

Blake Robbins

A legal document filed by the Plaintiffs in the Blake Robbins v. Lower Merion School District case revealed, Harriton High, destroyed a portion of the incriminating evidence, testifying to their criminal misconduct.

The evidence in question refers to some of the 56,000 secretly snapped webcam photos, unlawfully taken of 15-year-old, Blake Robbins and fellow students, by the LanRev software, the school illegally installed on the units, without telling anyone.

All students in the district were banned from carrying their own laptop computers to school. They were required to use school issued laptops that had webcams, acting as hidden spycams, which they were not told about in any measure.

The students took the laptops home and their privacy was violated to greater degrees, as the software was programmed to snap photos every 15 minutes, on whatever was in front of the computers, if they were reported lost or stolen.

Many students stated they did not report their laptops lost or stolen, yet the webcams' on light frequently turned on while they were at home and in school, which indicates one is being filmed. They reported these findings to the school, prior to the Robbins case, only to be told it was a computer glitch, which in retrospect, was clearly a lie.

The students were unconstitutionally being spied on by perverted members of the school's staff, such as computer tech, Carol Cafiero, who in an email to another member of the school's faculty, referred to the webcams spying on the kids, as a soap opera she loves.

She is unquestionably a voyeur, who even stated Robbins had "no reasonably expectation to privacy" as his laptop's insurance fee had lapsed.

Therefore, following her sick logic, a $55 lapsed insurance fee, gave Cafiero the illegal, unconstitutional right, to remotely and secretly, turn on a webcam that acted as a hidden camera, spying on a minor in his home, in particular his bedroom, in conduct one would expect from a pedophile.

To Ms. Cafiero and co: you should hope one day your home insurance payment isn't late and a crazy, psychotic insurance company doesn't decide to install hidden cameras in your bedrooms to snap thousands of photos, triggering every fifteen minutes, in a sick bid to see what you are doing inside the property they are financially on the hook for, until the grace period expires on your policy. It would be the equivalent of what you did to underage students in your school district and their families, who were also spied on by default.

The school has admitted there are photos of Robbins "partially undressed" and "sleeping" in his bedroom. However, the school insists the secretly snapped webcam images did not contain any salacious photos, but the Judiciary Report does not believe that. The Plaintiffs claim some of the evidence has been destroyed and the Judiciary Report thinks so as well.

To the readers of this website, think about what you normally do in the privacy of your bedrooms, such as dress and undress, sleep, talk on the phone, while some engage in sexual activity. In light of this, one has to believe, a webcam secretly snapping photos every fifteen minutes, 24 hours a day, for an extended period of time, caught nude photos, which in this case would mean child pornography.

Lock them up for this nastiness against these kids!

School District Accused of Snapping Thousands of Shots of Students at Home

04/19/10 1:50 PM PT'May Be a Voyeur' - Carol Cafiero, a technology
coordinator now on leave from Harriton High School, "may be a voyeur," the
motion suggests. Responding to an email from an IT staffer about how viewing
students from the computer webcams amounted to a sort of "[school district] soap
opera," Cafiero responded, "I know, I love it," according to the recent filing.

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania on
Thursday ordered that Cafiero be sanctioned US$2,500 for refusing to answer any
questions in a deposition, citing her Fifth Amendment rights.

Cafiero is also now required to turn over her home computer for
inspection.

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/69805.html?wlc=1272003017