According to an allegation posed on Harriton and Lower Merion High Schools it has been said that multiple photos of the users have been snapped without permission. This allegation came into light after a Harriton High School's student and his parents filed a federal law suit against the school.

In the filed suit, Blake Robbins student of the school complained that an assistant principal blamed him for misbehavior last November on the basis of a laptop photograph in his Penn Valley house. The school district accepted student's laptop webcam system has been activated 42 times over a period 14-month.

Defending, But District spokesman Douglas Young has been saying repeatedly that this clicking and recording was a part of the security program developed with an intention of keeping track of the lost and the stolen laptops. Stressing on the same reason he said, "This included tracking loaner laptops that may, against regulations, have been taken off campus".

A network technician, Mike Perbix accepted that the laptops and the computers have captured 20 photographs a teacher and some students who were ignorant about being snapped while they were in high school classroom attending regular classes. He also stated that the systems kept on recording till the time it was turned off.