I found this news story to be very discomforting.  It truly creeped me out thinking that this school district would actually have the nerve to completely invade someone’s privacy the way they did.  I don’t have kids but with all the child predators out there, this would’ve had me storming the school district’s offices with torch and pitchfork in hand.

     It also made me think that if I ever get a new computer that has a built in camera, I’ll put electrical tape over the lens.  I like my privacy. 

     Then I look at this whole situation as a mystery writer.  The idea of someone watching a person, through his or her own computer, without his or her knowledge, is fodder for another book.  In a world where we’ve had to put stalker laws on the books, tell me this doesn’t make your skin crawl.

     In fact, I do believe that Criminal Minds had a show where a serial killer used his job as a computer tech to stalk and kill his victims.  After reading this and the news story, I wonder, did you put tape over your computer’s camera?