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Feds Not Filing Charges in Pennsylvania School Spying Controversy

by Terrence O'Brien on August 17, 2010 at 03:45 PM

After months of back and forth and hand wringing, it looks like the strange tale of the Lower Merion school district may finally be coming to a close. In advance of the new school year, U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger has announced that the federal government will not be filing charges against the district or its employees over the controversial use of tracking software on school-issued laptops that snapped webcam photos of students. Memeger says that an investigation turned up no evidence of criminal intent. Still, if we were students in the district, we might choose to turn down the offer of a free, school-issued laptop. [From: Google/AP]

Tags: law, LowerMerion, LowerMerionSchoolDistrict, privacy, school, spying, top

source: Google/AP

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S.S.Oct 3rd 2010 8:09PM

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And WHY, unless the laptop is reported as lost, is the webcam even taking pics? Our federal government is totally impedent....from the fda to the sec........us citizens aren't doing anything, with the exception of buying forign made products, that is anti-American...but these so called administrators and lawmakers are so negligent.....that they allow the disintigration of the fabric of our society....financially, of human decency.......even when someone kills an American, like the jet skier from Texas...we do nothing....law enforcement is a joke,,,they'll put you and I in jail for smoking pot, but let illegal aliens have $30K plus, a year......more if they have more than 1 kid in public school (10K per child in most districts)........face it...some perv geek IT guy in the school district did this....and how "good 'ol boy' is that, to cover it up?

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