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Students Spied On With School Issued Laptops

Suit: School used its laptops to spy on students at home

PHILADELPHIA — A suburban school district used webcams in school-issued laptops to spy on students at home, potentially catching them and their families in compromising situations, a family claims in a federal lawsuit.

Lower Merion School District officials said the laptops “contain a [...]

From Airports to Bus Stations — to traffic stops? Here is the “new” America

TAMPA, FL — It’s the sort of security we’ve seen a lot of since 9-11 at places like airports and seaports and major sporting events. Bomb sniffing dogs, pat-downs and metal detector wanding, gloved inspections of hand-held bags were all performed in the shadow of…Greyhound buses.

“We do this for a couple of reasons,” [...]