School used student laptop webcams to spy on them at school and home

"If true, these allegations are about as creepy as they come. I don't know about you, but I often have the laptop in the room while I'm getting dressed, having private discussions with my family, and so on. The idea that a school district would not only spy on its students' clickstreams and emails (bad enough), but also use these machines as AV bugs is purely horrifying.".....

[link to boingboing.net]

This article is from 2010. We started placing electrical tape over our laptop webcams, and keeping these devices out of bedrooms, etc.