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  • Remember that school that was spying on kids? Well now it’s creepier

    Remember that school that was spying on kids? Well now it’s creepier

    The Lower Merion School District (motto: "We're Building the Future Police State"), caught using a remote monitoring service on school-supplied laptops while the kids were at home, had some pretty creepy rules on the books to ensure compliance. To wit we find, thanks to strydehax, these gems:
    * Possession of a monitored Macbook was required for classes * Possession of an unmonitored personal computer was forbidden and would be confiscated * Disabling the camera was impossible * Jailbreaking a school laptop in order to secure it or monitor it against intrusion was an offense which merited expulsion

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