School districts quietly deactivating webcams

Perspective:

The story of remotely activated webcams in school laptop programs appears to be a nationwide phenomenon. The media outcry over Harriton High appears to have completely missed the fact that an even larger 1:1 educational laptop program has been using webcams for theft tracking for years as well. This great survey reporting from Philly.com shows a wide ranging reaction from school officials regarding remote laptop activation, from those that get it, to those who don't, those that are quietly deleting their webcam access, and those who... wait, huh, what?