By Darryl Mason
So this is why prime minister Kevin Rudd wanted to get a laptop in front of every school student in Australia :
....the laptops issued to high-school students....have webcams that can be covertly activated by the schools' administrators, who have used this facility to spy on students and even their families.Don't panic. Yet. This story is about an extremely creepy laptops-for-students program in Philadelphia.
But do the the tens of thousands of laptops being distributed to Australian schools have webcams as standard? And can they be remotely activated?
Students probably already know the lenses can be blinded temporarily, without damage, by taping a small piece of paper over that digital eye.
Just in case.
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