#4 Open Topic

For this free write I would like to talk about the macbook spying case. The highschool gave every student a macbook to complete their work on and off school. Like any other macbooks, they had a webcam. The highschool had the ability to turn on the webcam even off school property. A student was sent a message saying he did illegal behavior and they have pictures to prove it on the webcam. I thought the highschool was creative in using the webcam to keep track of lost or stolen laptops. However, it is ridiculous that the faculty has the ability to turn on the webcam when the student is at home. Especially, when there was no suspicion that the laptop was even lost. This is an invasion of privacy, “peeping tom technology”. Sometimes people change infront of their computers while listening to music. Or even on the computer just at home. Its big invasion of privacy and the school had no reason to activate the webcam without a report of a lost or stolen laptop. The highscshool claimed they disabled the webcam feature. But students decided to slap post-it notes over the camera lens just in case.