School In Webcam Spy Case Captured 56,000 Secret Images Of Students

Blake Robbins

It was revealed today in the Blake Robbins v. Lower Merion School District laptop webcam spying case that the school captured 56,000 images of students without their consent, in different states of undress, in their homes, among other places.

Harriton High, one of the schools in Lower Merion School District, initially lied and tried to play down the case, but as anyone can see, it is a sick, gross invasion of privacy that needs to be prosecuted.

The people on the school board involved in this perversion would not like it if it were done to their families. Yet, had no qualms about doing this to others.

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STORY SOURCE (EXTERNAL LINKS):

Lower Merion report: Web cams snapped 56,000 images

Truth Comes Out In School Webcam Spying Case

Blake Robbins

The truth has started to come out in the Philadelphia school webcam spying case, Blake Robbins vs. Lower Merion School District, affirming a number of things the Judiciary Report stated all along.

It was revealed today, Harriton High's undisclosed webcam program that secretly spied on students through their school issued laptops, snapped THOUSANDS OF PHOTOS OF KIDS AND THEIR FAMILIES IN THEIR HOMES. Students were snapped without their knowledge and consent in different states of undress and while sleeping, among other things.

This confirms what the Judiciary Report stated weeks ago, that there must be many illegally taken webcam photos of students in their homes, currently there is no smart webcam that can only turn on when drug use or other illegal activity is present, as the way technology works, the cameras can only be programmed to snap indiscriminately every few minutes or hours, depending on what the IT tech programs it to do.

Robbins' lawyer also stated, Carol Cafiero, who ran from a deposition, invoking the Fifth Amendment, is a "voyeur" that derived personal gratification from secretly watching students in their homes through the webcams.

An email disclosed in court this week revealed, Cafiero saw spying on kids in their homes, through the secretly recording webcams, as her "own little soap opera" which is sick. Ironically, several weeks ago, the Judiciary Report wrote, the school board involved in this case perversely tried to have their own sick little reality show via secret webcams spying on unsuspecting people in their homes.

In that same article two months ago the Judiciary Report also stated, the Blake Robbins case has the signs of sick "voyeurism" and "voyeurs" written all over it.

As stated previously, voyeurism is a form of mental illness, sexual dysfunction and deep depravity that is a danger to society, as anyone that would go to the extraordinary lengths to perversely break that privacy barrier and secretly spy on someone in their home, is sick beyond belief and should not be roaming free among the public to victimize others.

As it stands, Florida, New York and California, among other states, have anti-voyeurism laws that criminalize spying on people in their homes. However, in researching the law, remarkably, in Pennsylvania, it is barely an offense.

However, said webcams on the students' laptops had the capability to record audio, which should constitute violations of wiretapping laws, rendering felony charges. One can equate it to child endangerment laws, in that a child does not have to be injured to prove guilt. The mere fact the child was placed in a dangerous situation that endangered the minor is enough for an indictment.

It should not matter that the mic/audio allegedly was not turned, as the webcameras snapped photos, the capability was there and without permission.

In closing, since 2005 the Judiciary Report warned the FBI, DOJ and the US Congress in writing that questionable people have the capability to spy on innocent people in their homes, as has been proven by Kabbalah's invasive criminal conduct against me and that something needed to be done on a government level to rein in this type of perverse criminal misconduct.

Nothing was done and in that, the FBI, DOJ and US Congress, failed miserably, with innocent kids in Philadelphia now paying a price for the government's dereliction of duty, as other perverts believed such misconduct could be done with impunity, hence the Lower Merion School District case.

That's the problem with ignoring crimes being committed against innocent people, deeming it acceptable collateral damage - someone, somewhere else of the same depraved mindset, will get the same idea, think it's okay and cowardly victimize the weakest in society. This time, the victims were defenseless children trying to get an education.

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STORY SOURCE (EXTERNAL LINKS):

Motion: Schools shot thousands of webcam images of students (4-16-10)

School secretly snapped 1000s of students at home (4-16-10)

School Webcam snapped 'partially undressed' kid (4-16-10)

Judge Refuses To Squash Deposition Subpoena In School Webcam Spying Case

Blake Robbins

Jan Dubois, the judge in the Blake Robbins v. Lower Merion School District case, regarding the school spying on kids in their homes, through laptops issued to them by the learning institution, has refused to squash a deposition subpoena, ordering one of the IT techs behind the illegal spy program to appear in court.

However, the employee in question, Carol Cafiero, has vowed to invoke the Fifth Amendment, which is the right to keep silent to prevent self-incrimination.

Irrespective of Cafiero's incriminating silence, well done to the judge. Someone needs to stand up for victims' rights in these privacy abuse cases that have been popping up all over the country.

The truth needs to be ascertained and not swept under the rug, after the nastiness that was done to these kids and their families, via secretly spying on them in their homes, of all places.

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Key figure in ‘Webcamgate’ invokes Fifth

Fri, Apr. 9, 2010 - A Lower Merion School District official at the center of the "Webcamgate" scandal invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination today.

Carol Cafiero, the district's information-systems coordinator, had attempted last month to quash a subpoena ordering her to give a deposition for the federal invasion-of-privacy lawsuit filed in February. A judge rejected her motion.

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New Developments In The School Webcam Spying Case

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The Blake Robbins vs. Lower Merion School District spying case has taken a few more turns. Vice Principal, Lindy Matsko, is running from giving a deposition, as requested by the 15-year-old's lawyer, for fear "he will ambush her" in court.

Well, she and the school's management should have thought about that before they inexcusably confronted and ambushed a 15-year-old boy, with a photograph of himself in his bedroom, secretly taken by a school laptop's webcam, in misconduct they commissioned without his knowledge or that of his family.

It's amazing how people will engage in the perversion of spying on people in their homes, but when their illegal misdeeds are named and shamed publicly, they take the cowardly approach and run for cover.

I ask the site's readers, can you imagine someone coming up to you in a public setting, telling you what is going on in the privacy of your home, due to the illegal surveillance cams they have spying on you in your house. It is abominable and extremely perverted.

Vice Principal Lindy Matsko

The school's management deserves every bit of the shame being heaped upon them for this nastiness. It takes a deprave set of minds to do something like this.

The U.S. Judiciary Committee, a division of the Congress, has also scheduled a hearing into the spying case, as it has alarmed the nation and is quite sick.

The Robbins, all the other students and their families, deserve to know when they were spied on and the frequency thereof. Stop trying to launch a cover up. The case should proceed, the evidence uncovered, people imprisoned and laws enacted to ensure this perversion never transpires again.

There also needs to be laws barring the FBI from engaging in this type of misconduct, as they are currently doing the same to people in America, under the guise of law enforcement surveillance, when it is a sick invasion of privacy.

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STORY SOURCE:

High school Webcam follies, part II: Dumb and dumber

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School IT Techs In Webcam Spying Case On Leave

Blake Robbins

The two school IT techs in the Blake Robbins v. Lower Merion School District have been placed on leave, in the fall out from the horrible invasion of privacy case, that saw a 15-year-old boy, photographed unaware in his own bedroom, by a webcam on a Harriton High School issued laptop.

Michael Perbix and Carol Cafiero have been placed on administrative leave and are stating the school ordered them to turn the cameras on each time. On March 6, 2010, they admitted the webcams are programmed to snap photographs of laptop users anywhere they are located "every 15 minutes."

The school IT Techs confessions on March 6, 2010 confirms what the Judiciary Report previously stated on February 22. 2010 in the article titled School’s Illegal Defense For Spying On Kids In Their Homes With Webcams, in that webcams with spyware attached to them, will trigger at timed intervals, as they currently cannot know when someone is seated in front of the unit doing drugs, as the school alleged regarding 15-year-old Blake Robbins, which turned out to be candy, not illegal pills.

Mike Perbix, computer administrator at Harriton High School

This means, as the site previously surmised, there is more than one photo of Blake and other students, who were caught unaware, when the school triggered the webcams to start snapping photos of them in different situations, without their permission or that of their parents.

That's called voyeurism and it is illegal in America. It also constitutes illegal wiretapping, as webcams come standard with sound and video. The intent to violate the law is clearly there, as meetings were taken before this spying program was implemented.

Oh and in more bad news, Lower Merion School District is not the only learning institution in the nation with such surreptitious spying capabilities installed on laptops.

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Police get Webcam pictures in school spy case

March 6, 2010 1:12 PM PST - Two IT employees at Pennsylvania's Lower Merion School District have been put on administrative leave, and pictures taken from Webcams on school-issued computers have been turned over to the local police department, according to the attorney of one of the employees now on leave.

Attorney Charles Mandracchia, who represents school district information coordinator Carol Cafiero, told Philadelphia TV station Fox 29 that that "they had a private Web site for some of these pictures for the Lower Marion Police Department to view and they were the only ones who could view it."

In February, the family of Blake Robbins, a 15-year-old student at Harriton High School filed a civil complaint in federal court against the district for allegedly using the Webcam on his school-issued laptop to take a photo of the student while he was at home. The district contends that cameras were only activated if a laptop had been reported lost or stolen. The district has since stopped using the tracking software to activate Webcams.

Speaking about his client and Michael Perbix, the other suspended IT staff member, Mandracchia said, "It was their duty to turn on the camera, but they would only do that if they received a request from the two high schools." He also said the pictures were "taken by the computer itself...every 15 minutes once the computer was open, but it was only supposed to be done if the computer was lost or stolen."...

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