How incredibly fucked up is that?

School district admits installing covert webcam activation software on student laptops, denies wrongdoing - Boing Boing:

"The Superintendant of the Lower Merion School District -- where parents have initiated a class action suit over the covert use of students' laptops to surveil them in school and at home -- has sent a letter to parents with more information about the spying. The school admits that there was spyware installed on students laptops that allowed for remote, covert activation of their webcams..."