[7] [8] In the 2010 Robbins v. Lower Merion School District case, plaintiffs charged two suburban Philadelphia high schools secretly spied on students by surreptitiously and remotely activating webcams embedded in school-issued laptops the students were using at home, and therefore infringed on their privacy rights.
[9][10] LANrev software was used in the Lower Merion school district's student laptop program, overseen by network technician Michael Perbix.
[11] In February 2010, Perbix and other administrators in the district were accused of using the software to take undisclosed and unauthorized photographs of students through the webcams on their Macintosh laptops.
[12] The lawsuit was brought by the parents of 15-year-old sophomore, Blake Robbins, who was allegedly accused of illicit behavior seen through his computer's webcam of him in his bedroom.
[13] The FBI investigated the incident, and a Philadelphia federal judge intervened to sort out issues relating to the lawsuit.