Philly school district settles webcam spying scandal for $600k

[thewayne]

Naturally the lawyers get 2/3rds of it. The Feds dropped their investigation, so there's going to be no criminal proceedings. No information on whether the IT director or any other administrators lost their jobs.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/10/webcam-spy-settlement/

http://www.skunkpost.com/news.sp?newsId=3361

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/10/12/1415254/Lawyer-Is-Big-Winner-In-Webcamgate-Settlement

Comments

[silveradept]

Probably not. they maintained they didnt' do anything wrong, even when presented with evidence that they did wrong, so I doubt anyone's going to be fired over the matter.