56,000 Images Captured on Monitored Student Laptops at Pa. Schools
And in Pennsylvania, a suburban Philadelphia school district has admitted to capturing at least 56,000 photographs and screenshots from cameras on computer laptops issued to its students. The Lower Merion School District has previously acknowledged it monitored students by remotely activating the laptops’ cameras.

School officials have claimed they were trying to recover missing or stolen computers. The family of a student targeted by the monitoring has filed a federal lawsuit against the Lower Merion district. The student, Blake Robbins, was photographed over 400 times during a fifteen-day period last year, sometimes as he slept or was half-dressed.

The district used images from Robbins’ laptop to accuse him of consuming drugs, only to realize that what it thought were drugs was actually candy.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/20/headlines#18