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I see two likely scenarios: 1. A prissy, overbearing administrator did this carefully, with due attention to privacy of records. 2. Misuse of the webcams wa
by Daniel_Newby 17y ago
I see two likely scenarios:
1. A prissy, overbearing administrator did this carefully, with due attention to privacy of records.
2. Misuse of the webcams was rife and uncontrolled. School staff were emailing funny webcam captures with no regard for privacy, public opinion, or self preservation. The investigation will rapidly turn into "copy every hard drive touched by a staff member". I.e., a fishing expedition.
- hga 17y agoNo, it's only a fishing expedition if the copying is done on a pretext to find something, anything to "get" someone with. If the extreme of #2 occurred, it would only be sane to copy every disk drive to preserve evidence. Given the real cost of examining disk images (especially for deleted pictures), I wouldn't be surprised if the searches wouldn't then be driven real evidence ... although I suppose after capturing metadata it would be easy to see "who has or had a copy of this picture or video". But even then, even if abusive in scope, it's not a fishing expedition.
- dantheman 17y agoA fishing expedition is when you want to prosecute person A and don't have any reason to. So you go and search & surveil until something is discovered that they can be prosecuted for. If the administrators were shown to be sending files around, and if their is evidence that they also used their home computers to conduct the monitoring then those systems too will be searched.