Laptops in school: The wrong way of doing it.

Blake Robbins and his parents have filed a civil law suit against the Lower Merion School District in Pennsylvania for using school-issued laptops to spy on the students at home.

The district used a software program called LaNrer that featured Theft Tracker. Once turned on, Theft Tracker would record the computer's Internet address, capture a screen image and took a Web cam image every 15 minutes until the program was turned off. After recording, the information would be sent to the school's server and the program would delete the file on the laptop. There was no way for the user of the laptop to know they were being watched.