Other students, whose pictures were taken said their laptops had not been reported stolen or missing either. ![]() Robbins said he did not know why the spying device was activated as his laptop had not been reported stolen or missing. He and his parents launched the case, claiming violation of civil rights. The row began when Robbins was confronted in November by a school official suspicious that he may have had drugs in his bedroom and was shown a photograph taken from his laptop. The school district issued 2,300 laptops to students and said it activated the spyware installed in them to try to track 80 that had gone missing. ![]() Henry Hockeimer, a lawyer for Harriton school which Robbins attended, revealed that at least 56,000 webcam pictures and other images were taken from students' laptops but he denied any were of a salacious nature. "Not only was Blake Robbins being spied upon, but every one of the people he was IM chatting with were spied upon," said Robbins's lawyer, Mark Haltzman. ![]() There were images of other students in their homes as well. Court papers from the Robbins's lawyers said that at first it was thought that the laptops' "peeping tom" technology had produced a few images but they found more than 400 of Robbins, including images "showing him partially undressed and sleeping". Robbins and his parents have filed an action against the school district of Lower Merion in an affluent suburb of Philadelphia.
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