Michael and Holly Robbins filed suit Tuesday against Lower Merion School District (PA) for using a webcam on a school-issued laptop to illegally invade the privacy of their son, sophomore Blake Robbins.

The Robbins became aware of the invasion when the school’s assistant principal, Lynn Matsko, confronted Blake, accusing him of engaging in improper behavior in his home and citing as evidence a photograph from the webcam embedded in the laptop issued by the school.

State grants permitted the district to issue laptops to all 2,300 high school students. The Apple MacBook laptops have a built-in webcam with a “security feature” that can snap a picture of the operator and the screen.

Matsko later told Michael Robbins, that the district “could remotely activate the webcam contained in a student’s personal laptop . . . at any time it chose and to view and capture whatever images were in front of the webcam” without the knowledge or approval of the laptop’s users.

Big Brother is watching you!

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