Thousands of webcam images have been found in the school district being sued

I'm glad that somebody is still tracking this story, and it hasn't just dropped on the ground.<p>Too often, it seems, a news story outrages us, but the furor quickly dies down. In the end, nobody even notices the ritual scapegoat.<p>A little while back, somebody proposed here (<a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1183587" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1183587</a> ) a web app that would allow us to follow a news story entire life. This reminds of that, and why it would be a good idea.

where there is smoke, there is fire. Sounds to me like what initially was an ability to view students working in school quickly digressed into illegal abuse of the deployment. That district's insurance company must be terrified at this point, because lawyers are going to come out of the woodwork to jump on this one.

<i>The district has said it turned on the camera in Robbins' computer because his family had not paid the $55 insurance fee and he was not authorized to take the laptop home.</i><p>This is puzzling. First of all, if he didn't pay the fee, why did he even have access to it to take it home? Secondly, if you already know where the laptop is and who has it, what's the point of turning on the camera? (Other than to satisfy your penchant for voyeurism)

Absolutely disgusting. I'm happy this case is being treated seriously and that (as it appears) there's the hope of action being taken against these school administrators.<p>I've thought for years that parents place far too much trust in public-school staff.

how do you get a society where something like this is uncovered, and half of the comments are abusing the family that uncovered it?<p>oh, and the past tense of shine is shone :)

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Can someone make the title a little more grammatical? It's not really a sentence and it doesn't make sense unless you already know what it's referring to.

I continue to be amazed that people are not more outraged about this. While there is some outrage and certainly charges will be filed, in general the public's opinion of their right to privacy and anonymity has shifted by orders of magnitude in the last 20 years.