{"id":188366,"date":"2010-10-13T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/13\/610-grand-not-enough\/"},"modified":"2010-10-13T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T22:41:00","slug":"610-grand-not-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/13\/610-grand-not-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"610 Grand, Not Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lawsuit against the Lower Merion school district for spying on children with webcams <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/homepage\/20101012_Lower_Merion_district_s_laptop_saga_ends_with__610_000_settlement.html\">has been settled for $610,000<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The Lower Merion School District will pay $610,000 to settle lawsuits over its tracking of student laptop computers, ending an eight-month saga that thrust the elite district into a global spotlight and stirred questions about technology and privacy in schools.<\/p>\n<p>School board members voted unanimously Monday night to pay $185,000 to the two students who claimed the district spied on them by secretly activating the webcams on their laptops.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Someone should have gone to jail over all of this.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that there was not a serious criminal investigation of this, with dozens of school officials under scrutiny is a disgrace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lawsuit against the Lower Merion school district for spying on children with webcams has been settled for $610,000: The Lower Merion School District will pay $610,000 to settle lawsuits over its tracking of student laptop computers, ending an eight-month saga that thrust the elite district into a global spotlight and stirred questions about technology &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060,968,969,972,1066],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-education","category-evil","category-justice","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}