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Suit Says School Spied On Own Students

PHILADELPHIA - MyFoxPhilly has obtained a lawsuit filed by a Lower Merion teen and his parents, claiming his high school secretly spied on students at their own homes using school-issued laptops.

The suit claims that Lindy Matsko, an assistant principal at Harriton High School, showed the male student a picture remotely taken by school officials using software to control a web camera on his laptop.

Matsko allegedly told the student the image showed he was doing something wrong inside his house.

The student told his parents about the incident, the suit claims, and the boy’s father confronted Matsko.

The suit claims Matsko acknowledged the school could start the webcam and take pictures whenever it wanted to.

The family says the school district violated federal wiretapping laws and that as many as 1,800 students could be affected at Harriton and Lower Merion High Schools.

The family also claims that every high school student in the district had a webcam laptop and the computers were paid for with state and federal aid money.

Superintendent Christopher W. McGinley was also named in the suit.

The AP tried contacting him without response.


[Something tells me that this school is going to be SUED out of existence. Imagine being a father of a 16 year old girl and finding out that a laptop spycam is being turned on in her bedroom. Along with the lawsuits it wouldn't surprise me to see some fists flying..]