The Wake County school system is expanding the use of digital surveillance software to spy on students’ computers for signs of suicide, self-harm, threats of violence and other dangerous behavior. By ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A student works on a computer at a K-12 school in Provo, Utah. School districts across the country have adopted computer ...

There are more eyes on students today than just a teacher’s watchful gaze. Thousands of school districts use monitoring software that can track students’ online searches, scan their emails, and in ...

School closures have been tough on kids since the start of the pandemic, and suicides and mental health-related hospital visits are on the rise. So, in an effort to improve student safety, some school ...

The Lawrence school district offices building, located at 110 McDonald Dr., is pictured in May 2025. The Lawrence school district has stopped using Gaggle software on its devices, and attorneys for ...

This is what high school teachers see when they open GoGuardian, a popular software application used to monitor student activity: The interface is familiar, like the gallery view of a large Zoom call.

Tennessee 13-year-old arrested after AI flagged online joke School surveillance tools like Gaggle and Lightspeed under scrutiny Critics warn tech can criminalize students for careless words Lawsuits ...

Although the Lawrence school district has stopped using Gaggle, it is now using a different student monitoring software — and its use was not voted on by board members or mentioned in court documents ...

Schools often use AI to detect students at risk of self-harm, violence against others, and bullying. Some worry these programs violate students' privacy and freedom to use the internet, WSJ reports.

A new report from the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) found that computer technology — like artificial intelligence (AI), content filtering, and student activity monitoring — poses risks to ...