Allegation Archive

  • Allegation: School district used laptop to take 400+ photos of student without permission

    Allegation: School district used laptop to take 400+ photos of student without permission

    Oh, this school district is totally boned. You'll recall that the Lower Merion School District, in Pennsylvania, had given students MacBooks so they could do their schoolwork. Fun. What wasn't fun, though, was that the school is alleged to have snapped photos of the students without their consent. The whole kerfluffle is wrangled in the legal system now, and one of the district's employees who had access to the images called it a "little LMSD soap opera." Replied another: "I know, I love it." Oh boy, not good for the school district.

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  • Your Comments Are Safe With Us

    Your Comments Are Safe With Us

    About half an hour ago, a post that was published on the Digital Inspiration blog hit Techmeme. The title of that post left little to the imagination: it read “TechCrunch Removes Reader Comments From All Older Blog Posts”. That allegation in itself is inaccurate, as is most of the rest of the article, so I felt compelled to respond quickly and offer our side of the story. Which, on a sidenote, we weren’t asked for by the person or people behind the blog (at least not to my knowledge).

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  • Apple hit with iPhone digital camera patent lawsuit

    Apple hit with iPhone digital camera patent lawsuit

    Looks like Apple's lawyers will be extra busy in the coming days. Some entity by the name of St. Clair Intellectual Property Consultants has filed suit against the house that Jobs built, alleging that the iPhone infringes upon several of its patents.

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  • MPAA has entire town’s municipal Wi-Fi shut down over single piracy allegation

    MPAA has entire town’s municipal Wi-Fi shut down over single piracy allegation

    It's getting harder and harder to be surprised about the MPAA's silly tactics. So, surprise! The MPAA has successfully shut down an Ohio town's municipal Wi-Fi network because one person was caught illegally downloading a movie. You know, peers and seeders and all that.

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