Editing Spyware (section)

===WebcamGate===
{{Main|Robbins v. Lower Merion School District}}
In the 2010 [[Robbins v. Lower Merion School District|WebcamGate]] case, plaintiffs charged two suburban Philadelphia high schools secretly spied on students by surreptitiously and remotely activating webcams embedded in school-issued laptops the students were using at home, and therefore infringed on their privacy rights.  The school loaded each student's computer with [[LANrev]]'s remote activation tracking software.  This included the now-discontinued "TheftTrack".  While TheftTrack was not enabled by default on the software, the program allowed the school district to elect to activate it, and to choose which of the TheftTrack surveillance options the school wanted to enable.<ref name="autogenerated5" />

TheftTrack allowed school district employees to secretly remotely activate the webcam embedded in the student's laptop, above the laptop's screen. That allowed school officials to secretly take photos through the webcam, of whatever was in front of it and in its line of sight, and send the photos to the school's server. The LANrev software disabled the webcams for all other uses (''e.g.'', students were unable to use [[Photo Booth]] or [[video chat]]), so most students mistakenly believed their webcams did not work at all. On top of the webcam surveillance, TheftTrack allowed school officials to take screenshots and send them to the school's server. School officials were also granted the ability to take snapshots of instant messages, web browsing, music playlists, and written compositions. The schools admitted to secretly snapping over 66,000 webshots and [[screenshot]]s, including webcam shots of students in their bedrooms.<ref name="autogenerated5">[http://lmsd.org/documents/news/100503_l3_report.pdf "Initial LANrev System Findings"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615100827/http://lmsd.org/documents/news/100503_l3_report.pdf |date=June 15, 2010 }}, LMSD Redacted Forensic Analysis, L-3 Services – prepared for [[Ballard Spahr]] (LMSD's counsel), May 2010. Retrieved August 15, 2010.</ref><ref name="USATODAY">{{cite news |url=http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/02/school-district-accused-of-issuing-webcam-laptops-to-spy-on-students/1 |author=Doug Stanglin|title=School district accused of spying on kids via laptop webcams |date=February 18, 2010|work=[[USA Today]] |access-date=February 19, 2010|url-status=live |archive-date=September 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120913050816/http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2010/02/school-district-accused-of-issuing-webcam-laptops-to-spy-on-students/1}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Suit: Schools Spied on Students Via Webcam |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/suit-schools-spied-on-students-via-webcam/ |newspaper=CBS NEWS|date=March 8, 2010|access-date=July 29, 2013|archive-date=August 1, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130801034022/http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-201_162-6220751.html |url-status=live}}</ref>