SCOT-FREE: U.S. ends webcam probe; no charges. “Federal prosecutors on Tuesday closed their investigation into Lower Merion School District’s secret use of software to track student laptops, saying they found no evidence that anyone intentionally committed a crime. The decision, announced by U.S. Attorney Zane Memeger, ended a six-month probe by the FBI into allegations that district employees might have spied on students through webcams on their school-issued laptops.” The civil suits remain, however.

UPDATE: Reader Brian Abbott is unimpressed: “It’s funny how intent never seems to be relevant when it’s your average schmo that messed up. Then prosecutors are all caught up with the ‘ignorance of the law is no excuse’ mentality.” That may be unfair, but you do get the feeling that they’d have tried harder if it were people spying on government workers and not the other way around.