#ABSOLUTE LOJACK TRACKING SOFTWARE#

#ABSOLUTE LOJACK TRACKING SOFTWARE#

This software can be used to instruct the machine to report its IP address to Absolute, but it also gives Absolute employees remote access to the computer and allows them to record and intercept any data from the machine. Meanwhile, the school district had installed AbsoluteвЂ™s remote-recovery software Lojack for Laptops, onto the machine. She used the computer to exchange sexually explicit written and visual messages with her long distance boyfriend. Unbeknownst to the plaintiff, she claims, the laptop was stolen from the local school district. The facts are that in 2008, Clements-Jeffrey, a substitute teacher, bought a laptop from one of her students. The court held, precisely and correctly, that nothing in the Wiretap Act allows the owner of a stolen laptop to authorize a private company to intercept communications. But the Court disagreed, holding that, while the company could have merely collected the stolen computerвЂ™s IP address or geographical data as part of locating the device, it went too far when it intercepted the keystrokes and captured the webcam usage of the person using the stolen laptop. All it was doing was acting on behalf of the rightful owner to obtain IP information and get the laptop to send photographs of the user to it. Absolute argued its service was like other device location products in вЂњGoToMyPCвЂќ, вЂњBack to MacвЂќ and вЂњMobile MeвЂќ. The company, Absolute Software, markets вЂњLojack for LaptopsвЂќ software and associated services for recovering stolen machines. District Court judge in Ohio ruled that a laptop-tracking company could be liable for intercepting sexually explicit communications in an effort to identify thieves who stole the computer one plaintiff was using to communicate with the other. Springfield, a quirky case involving sex and a stolen laptop, a U.S. Part One: The Wiretap Act and Find My Computer But the joy of a ubiquitous communications/tracking network is tempered by the threat to privacy - and potential liability - for enlisting SkyNet to peer into our cars, purses and bedrooms. IsnвЂ™t it great that when your car, or phone, or laptop gets lost or stolen, you can use modern technology to find your stuff and get it back? One might think only paranoid Luddites or the thieves themselves would oppose such an innovation.

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