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How to keep tabs on mobile school computers … without being sued for ‘spying’

A Pennsylvania school district was sued last year for remotely activating the webcams on student laptops to find missing machines. In nearby New Jersey, the Brick Township Public Schools had a problem with missing mobile computers, too–but not any more. And it won’t be in any legal danger from spying on students, either.

This district of 13 schools manages some 4,000 computers in all, about 1,000 of which are mobile computers such as laptops and netbooks. To keep track of the devices they loaned out to students and staff members, district officials used to use a binder and a paper sign-out sheet–a solution that was "not always up to date, and definitely not searchable," says IT Director Leonard Niebo.

Full Story: http://www.eschoolnews.com/2011/01/26/how-to-keep-tabs-on-mobile-computers-without-being-sued-for-spying/

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