"A 17-year-old in Neosho, Missouri, for instance, was woken up by the police in the middle of the night. It was one of the worst experiences of her life," the teen's mother told the NYT.
"Many of these systems are designed to flag keywords or phrases to figure out if a teen is planning to hurt themselves. But we have no idea if they're at all effective or accurate," reported the NYT.
"Civil rights groups have criticized the tech, arguing that in most cases, law enforcement shouldn't be involved. Is this really the best weapon against teen suicides?" the article questions.
"There are a lot of false alerts," Ryan West noted, emphasizing the unreliability of the algorithms used in these surveillance systems.
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