"A Pennsylvania school district was sued last year for remotely activating the webcams on student's laptops to find missing machines." However, a nearby district was able to learn from this educational mistake. The Brick Township Public Schools of New Jersey "had a problem with missing mobile computers, too—but not anymore. And it won’t be in any legal danger from spying on students, either." The Brick Township district has integrated an, "asset-tracking program called Computrace," in order to keep track the school's more than 1,000 mobile computers. Before the schools use of Computrace they relied on a binder and piece of paper to keep track of who loaned the devices. According to IT Director Leonard Niebo, "students seem to lose or misplace devices all the time." He goes on to state that the result was "bedlam." With the use of Computrace he says, "Brick Township now has a 100-percent return rate."
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