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>The law does. You paid for the device, or a car or a house you are renting.

You aren't renting a car. You are being provided a laptop, owned by someone else, and allowed to use it subject to the fact that you follow their terms and conditions, which happens to include monitoring. Please tell me specifically what law this violates, rather than hand-waving.

>While you are at it, give them the copyright to any sextapes they record in your house,

If you wanna make sex tapes on company or school provided laptops... By all means, go for it. But I have no idea what it has to do with this conversation



"You aren't renting a car. You are being provided a laptop, owned by someone else"

You are being provided a vehicle, owned by someone else. There is no difference, neither is an act of charity

You dont have to use a car, but your kid has to be at school, and has to use their laptop, so you don't have a choice to reject the 'terms and conditions'.

Is you kid's privacy worth less than $300 laptop?

"Please tell me specifically what law this violates, rather than hand-waving."

American Civil Liberties Union director Vic Walczak said that “the school district's clandestine electronic eavesdropping violates constitutional privacy rights, intrudes on parents' right to raise their children and may even be criminal under state and federal wiretapping laws.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_Scho...

https://www.publicschoolreview.com/blog/is-your-school-spyin...

The amount of folks here willing to jump to defend the 'rights' of organisations at the expence of personal liberty is disturbing




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