By David Kravets June 8, 2011 | 12:48 pm | Categories: Surveillance, privacy
A suburban Philadelphia school district embroiled in a webcam spy scandal was hit Tuesday with new allegations that a student-issued laptop secretly recorded more than 8,000 images.
The latest accusations, which were said to occur during a six-month period ending September 2008, has left the high school student “shocked, humiliated and severely emotionally distressed,” (.pdf) according to a federal invasion-of-privacy lawsuit, which seeks unspecified monetary damages.
As part of an FBI investigation and a lawsuit brought by a different student, a judge had contacted the boy’s parents informing him of the breach, and invited them to view the pictures. The youth’s parents were shown 4,404 webcam photographs and 3,978 screenshots captured with the Lower Merion School District–issued MacBook.
The amount of photos represents the largest publicly known number of images secretly recorded in the webcam scandal.
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