Lawsuit: School laptop flagged teen's suicide research weeks late, to ex-staffer's phone
A North Carolina family has sued Google and Alphabet, alleging negligence after their 13-year-old daughter spent three months using a school-issued Chromebook to discuss depression, research suicide methods and plan her funeral, interacting with Gemini in ways the suit says 'coached' her toward self-harm. Monitoring software eventually flagged the activity, but the alert reportedly went to the personal phone of a former school counselor who had left the job nine months earlier before reaching her parents, who then intervened.