Editing Arlen Specter (section)

===Privacy; computers===
Spurred by the 2010 ''[[Robbins v. Lower Merion School District]]'' case, in which two high schools admitted to secretly taking 66,000 webcam photos and screenshots of students in their homes on school-issued laptops, Specter held a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs on March 29, 2010.<ref name="spark">{{cite web|url=http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/031910-pa-school-spy-case-sparks.html |title=Pa. school spy case sparks fight over money |publisher=Network World |access-date=August 12, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100323015539/http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/031910-pa-school-spy-case-sparks.html |archive-date=March 23, 2010 }}</ref> He said: "The issue is one of surreptitious eavesdropping. Unbeknownst to people, their movements and activities were under surveillance."<ref name="spark"/> He said that Lower Merion's use of laptop cameras for surveillance convinced him that new federal legislation was needed to regulate electronic privacy.<ref>{{cite web|author=Maryclaire Dale|url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/mar/29/specter-pushes-in-pa-for-electronic-privacy-laws/|title=Specter pushes in Pa. for electronic privacy laws|publisher=SignOnSanDiego.com|date=March 29, 2010|access-date=August 13, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Rao|first=Maya|url=http://www.philly.com/inquirer/breaking/news_breaking/20100329_Specter_wants_to_extend_U_S__privacy_curbs_to_Web-cam_use.html?posted=n|title=Specter wants to extend U.S. privacy curbs to Web-cam use|publisher=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=March 29, 2010|access-date=August 13, 2010}} [https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/29-7 Alt URL] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615205038/http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2010/03/29-7 |date=June 15, 2013 }}</ref>

Specter then introduced legislation in April 2010 to amend the federal [[Wiretap Act]] to clarify that it is illegal to capture silent visual images inside another person's home. He said: "This is going to become law. You have a very significant invasion of privacy with these webcams, as more information is coming to light."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq_ed_board/91743474.html|title=No need for Candid Cameras|publisher=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=April 22, 2010|access-date=August 28, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100426135720/http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq_ed_board/91743474.html|archive-date=April 26, 2010}}</ref> Speaking on the floor of the Senate, he said: {{blockquote|Many of us expect to be subject to ... video surveillance when we leave our homes and go out each day—at the ATM, at traffic lights, or in stores, for example. What we do not expect is to be under visual surveillance in our homes, in our bedrooms, and, most especially, we do not expect it for our children in our homes.<ref name="philly22">{{cite web|last=Martin|first=John P.|url=http://www.philly.com/inquirer/front_page/20100416_1_000s_of_Web_cam_images__suit_says.html|title=1,000s of Web cam images, suit says|publisher=The Philadelphia Inquirer|date=April 16, 2010|access-date=August 13, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100418043454/http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20100416_1_000s_of_Web_cam_images__suit_says.html|archive-date=April 18, 2010}}</ref>}}