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thewayneIt's basically the same sort of stuff that the Pennsylvania school district was doing with it's MacBooks last year, except there may be a hardware component that has to be deactivated with a wand.
In this particular story, a couple was visited by an Aaron's store manager who claimed they had not paid for their computer and he was going to repo it. He showed them a picture of the husband working on the laptop taken with the built-in web cam. The couple freaked and called the police. They picked up the computer for the wife to use in college, made two payments, then decided to pay for the whole thing. Turns out a clerk at Aaron's was arrested for stealing money from the store, which could account for why their records showed the agreement was in default. Presumably the couple had the receipt showing final payment.
The couple is suing Aaron's and seeking class action status. There's some wonderful quotes in the story that the wife will frequently check email before/after showering, and that their 5 year old boy sometimes runs around naked as such kids are sometimes wont to do. So now Aaron's could be in possession of kiddie porn.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110503/ap_on_re_us/us_rental_computer_spyware
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/05/04/0111229/Aaron-Computer-Rental-Firm-Spies-On-Users
In this particular story, a couple was visited by an Aaron's store manager who claimed they had not paid for their computer and he was going to repo it. He showed them a picture of the husband working on the laptop taken with the built-in web cam. The couple freaked and called the police. They picked up the computer for the wife to use in college, made two payments, then decided to pay for the whole thing. Turns out a clerk at Aaron's was arrested for stealing money from the store, which could account for why their records showed the agreement was in default. Presumably the couple had the receipt showing final payment.
The couple is suing Aaron's and seeking class action status. There's some wonderful quotes in the story that the wife will frequently check email before/after showering, and that their 5 year old boy sometimes runs around naked as such kids are sometimes wont to do. So now Aaron's could be in possession of kiddie porn.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110503/ap_on_re_us/us_rental_computer_spyware
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/05/04/0111229/Aaron-Computer-Rental-Firm-Spies-On-Users
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