There are lots of reasons to be concerned for kid safety these days, not least of which are increased access to guns, online threats and a growing mental health crisis. However, surreptitiously surveilling them is both unlawful (at least so far) and sets the groundwork for mistrust. Yet, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms including the Associated Press, Dallas Morning News and Seattle Times, found AI tools from Gaggle Safety Management and other school safety tech vendors capture student laptop entries and allow access to anyone with those file links.