National Youth Summit on Digital Liberation
Uniting the youth to defend their rights in a digital world
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The National Youth Summit on Digital Liberation is a first-of-its-kind national convening where youth leaders, activists, and organizers critically examine how police surveillance technologies and algorithmic injustice shape the lives of marginalized youth and young adults in schools and other youth-serving systems. In 2025, the NOTICE Coalition and the Twin Cities Innovation Alliance (TCIA) brought together over 30 youth leaders from communities across the country, including Arizona, Minnesota, Virginia, Texas, and North Carolina representing a half-dozen youth justice organizations that have led fights against policing in schools to discuss the emerging threat of AI-driven surveillance in schools.
Through a day of presentations, workshops, and group discussions, the young leaders learned how AI surveillance violates students’ rights, undermines privacy, and enables censorship. Our youth-led facilitation team trained the young leaders about the impact of common AI surveillance technologies in schools, such as student device monitoring, vape detection, and facial recognition.
Through a day of presentations, workshops, and group discussions, the young leaders learned how AI surveillance violates students’ rights, undermines privacy, and enables censorship. Our youth-led facilitation team trained the young leaders about the impact of common AI surveillance technologies in schools, such as student device monitoring, vape detection, and facial recognition.
The National Youth Summit on Digital Liberation provides a space for the youth to:
- Understand how AI surveillance impacts their civil rights
- Build confidence in discussing digital rights
- Connect and foster a growing network of youth leaders across the country to support youth advocacy
- Equip and develop the necessary knowledge for youth organizations to confront digital injustices
The Summit is structured around presentations, workshops, and youth-centered group discusions around:
- AI surveillance and how it violates students' rights though undermining privacy and enabling censorship
- Education Technology (EdTech) and how EdTech impacts the student's Fourth Amendment rights
- Common AI surveillance tools, including device monitoring, vape detection and facial recognition
- Navigating through new digital technology
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