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May 10Pay no attention to the camera behind the curtain.
The WaPo headline, “Report: No spying in Pa. school laptops case,” strains the limits of credibility after Lower Merion School District’s admission that “lax policies led [the district] to capture 58,000 images.”
The honest take is buried at the end of the article:
The report said the tracking system was intended to help recover stolen computers and the district used it successfully for that purpose. But it said the district also used the system for missing computers and for unknown purposes and left it activated for long periods in cases “in which there was no longer any possible legitimate reason” for capturing images.
But they weren’t spying. Oh, and ignore this:
[E]mployees with access to the images marveled at the tracking software. It was like a window into “a little LMSD soap opera,” a staffer is quoted as saying in an e-mail to Carol Cafiero, the administrator running the program.
“I know, I love it,” she is quoted as having replied.
Tagged: aaaaaaah, technology, web, wtf o'clock
May 4th, 2010 at 8:09 pm
Semantics, right? Just like we have some kind of problem with recognizing torture as torture, rather than enhanced whatever.
May 5th, 2010 at 9:23 am
in a nutshell, yeah. not sure why the post would play along with it, though.