http://www.wmur.com/news/15910410/detail.html
Ok, I can understand confiscating the phone (though I would expect the phone to be returned later, perhaps to the parent of the student, though I am not sure how these things work) but, to pretend to be that student and using that student's phone to call others and then to entrap a person like they did seems to to skirt not only ethics, but the law. While I have no problem with police or others pretending to be fictuous people online and putting themselves out as bait for others to victimize so they can catch them, I do have a problem with someone leading someone else on and trapping them into a situation. Though they are students and have some limits on privacy especially at school, they still have some expectations of privacy and civil rights.
What do you guys think.
Ok, I can understand confiscating the phone (though I would expect the phone to be returned later, perhaps to the parent of the student, though I am not sure how these things work) but, to pretend to be that student and using that student's phone to call others and then to entrap a person like they did seems to to skirt not only ethics, but the law. While I have no problem with police or others pretending to be fictuous people online and putting themselves out as bait for others to victimize so they can catch them, I do have a problem with someone leading someone else on and trapping them into a situation. Though they are students and have some limits on privacy especially at school, they still have some expectations of privacy and civil rights.
What do you guys think.
