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FBI investigates allegations webcam used to monitor student
The FBI confirms it is now investigating a Pennsylvania student's stunning claim that he was spied on in his own home by school administrators using a remotely-activated webcam.
15-year-old Blake Robbins was one of 2,300 students at Harriton High who took home a school-issued laptop. Now the boy's family claims the school used that laptop to spy on Blake and accuse him of doing drugs.
The school maintains any webcams activated were only done so on laptops that were reported lost, missing or stolen. The Robbins family has filed a civil suit.
To break it all down for us we were joined on Tuesday's American Morning by Paul Callan, a criminal defense attorney and a professor of media law at Seton Hall University.
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It's not rocket science here, just put a piece of tape over the camera!
It's horrible if it's true, that schools are invading privacy like this. However there is a very simple fix for this invasion. Just put a piece of electrical tape on the camera to block the camera's view, that will take care of the visual not much you can do about the audio.