Japanese schools discovering downside to webcams in classrooms

We've mentioned before how much Japanese parents really seem to love those new webcam monitoring systems that are being installed at nursery schools and kindergartens around the country — they're becoming so popular that local city governments will commonly cover the around 600,000 yen ($6,000)
installation cost. Well, the backlash has begun. The cameras are apparently creating some potential legal pitfalls for the schools, mainly because some parents have begun using the web photos to back up various complaints. So as a result, some schools have begun to censor footage, stopping the cameras when kids get too irritable or simply moving misbehaving kids away from the camera's watchful eye. None of which is a good idea, since the last group of people you want to piss off is obsessive parents.