Just when you thought high school couldn’t get any more intrusive, this Pennsylvania school decided to bring the surveillance state right into students’ bedrooms. Handing out free MacBooks sounds generous, until you realize the price tag was your privacy. If Black Mirror ever needed inspiration for a new episode, this real-life ‘WebcamGate’ scandal has all the makings of a dystopian nightmare.

 

Dark story of school that gave 2,300 students free MacBooks then used webcams to spy on them