▲ 380 ▼ America's tech-filled classrooms are facing a backlash against school-assigned devices (apnews.com) submitted 5 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world 112 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] LavaPlanet@sh.itjust.works 42 points 5 months ago (6 children) Dude, don't normalise this bullshit. Wtf. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [+] village604@adultswim.fan -12 points 5 months ago* (5 children) What bullshit, making sure kids use school property only for school? Or did you mistakenly think I was suggesting that accessing the webcam was a part of usage monitoring software? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] MML@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 months ago (3 children) The school elected to enable TheftTrack to allow school district employees to secretly and remotely activate the standard webcam featured in all Apple laptops since 2006.[17][25][26][27] That allowed school officials to secretly take photographs through the webcam, of whatever was in front of it and in its line of sight, and send the photographs to the school's server.[9][17] The system took and sent a new photograph every 15 minutes when the laptop was on, and TheftTrack was activated, though school employees could adjust the timeframe to as low as one-minute intervals.[9][28][29] LANrev disabled the webcams for all other uses (e.g., students were unable to use Photo Booth or video chat), so most students mistakenly believed that their webcams did not work at all.[30] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_District permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [+] village604@adultswim.fan -7 points 5 months ago (2 children) And? I wasn't talking about remote webcam monitoring software. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 7 points 5 months ago (1 child) it comes with the territory permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] village604@adultswim.fan -3 points 5 months ago Not by default, no. There were a handful of cases out of millions of devices. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (1 reply)
[+] village604@adultswim.fan -12 points 5 months ago* (5 children) What bullshit, making sure kids use school property only for school? Or did you mistakenly think I was suggesting that accessing the webcam was a part of usage monitoring software? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] MML@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 months ago (3 children) The school elected to enable TheftTrack to allow school district employees to secretly and remotely activate the standard webcam featured in all Apple laptops since 2006.[17][25][26][27] That allowed school officials to secretly take photographs through the webcam, of whatever was in front of it and in its line of sight, and send the photographs to the school's server.[9][17] The system took and sent a new photograph every 15 minutes when the laptop was on, and TheftTrack was activated, though school employees could adjust the timeframe to as low as one-minute intervals.[9][28][29] LANrev disabled the webcams for all other uses (e.g., students were unable to use Photo Booth or video chat), so most students mistakenly believed that their webcams did not work at all.[30] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_District permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [+] village604@adultswim.fan -7 points 5 months ago (2 children) And? I wasn't talking about remote webcam monitoring software. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 7 points 5 months ago (1 child) it comes with the territory permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] village604@adultswim.fan -3 points 5 months ago Not by default, no. There were a handful of cases out of millions of devices. permalink fedilink source parent load more comments (1 reply)
[–] MML@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 months ago (3 children) The school elected to enable TheftTrack to allow school district employees to secretly and remotely activate the standard webcam featured in all Apple laptops since 2006.[17][25][26][27] That allowed school officials to secretly take photographs through the webcam, of whatever was in front of it and in its line of sight, and send the photographs to the school's server.[9][17] The system took and sent a new photograph every 15 minutes when the laptop was on, and TheftTrack was activated, though school employees could adjust the timeframe to as low as one-minute intervals.[9][28][29] LANrev disabled the webcams for all other uses (e.g., students were unable to use Photo Booth or video chat), so most students mistakenly believed that their webcams did not work at all.[30] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_District permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [+] village604@adultswim.fan -7 points 5 months ago (2 children) And? I wasn't talking about remote webcam monitoring software. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 7 points 5 months ago (1 child) it comes with the territory permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] village604@adultswim.fan -3 points 5 months ago Not by default, no. There were a handful of cases out of millions of devices. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] village604@adultswim.fan -7 points 5 months ago (2 children) And? I wasn't talking about remote webcam monitoring software. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 7 points 5 months ago (1 child) it comes with the territory permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] village604@adultswim.fan -3 points 5 months ago Not by default, no. There were a handful of cases out of millions of devices. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 7 points 5 months ago (1 child) it comes with the territory permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] village604@adultswim.fan -3 points 5 months ago Not by default, no. There were a handful of cases out of millions of devices. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] village604@adultswim.fan -3 points 5 months ago Not by default, no. There were a handful of cases out of millions of devices. permalink fedilink source parent