In the school's laptop insurance policy, the second bullet point under the second heading (Insurance Information) says that students who don't pay for insurance aren't allowed to bring the laptops off campus.
This could explain why they used this tactic so frequently and the reason for taking the picture in this particular case.
Nevertheless, the school should have recognized the obvious privacy concerns and used some other system to track uninsured laptops taken off campus.
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In the school's laptop insurance policy, the second bullet point under the second heading (Insurance Information) says that students who don't pay for insurance aren't allowed to bring the laptops off campus.
This could explain why they used this tactic so frequently and the reason for taking the picture in this particular case.
Nevertheless, the school should have recognized the obvious privacy concerns and used some other system to track uninsured laptops taken off campus.