Parents Sue EdTech Company on Behalf of Children for Privacy Violations
Parents from California and Maryland filed a class-action lawsuit Thursday against Instructure, an education technology company, on behalf of their minor children. The parents alleged that the company has monetized the personal information of its users, who are mostly school-aged children, without their consent.
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"Instructure markets itself as an education technology company, but its core business is generating, extracting, and analyzing as much information as possible about students and monetizing that information," the complaint said. "Instructure’s massive data-harvesting apparatus exposes children to serious and irreversible risks to their privacy, property, and autonomy, and harms them in ways that are both concealed and profound. Neither students nor their parents have agreed to this arrangement."
Case 25-02711, filed in the U.S. District Court for Central California, alleges the company's actions violate the Fourth Amendment, 14th Amendment, the California Invasion of Privacy Act and California's Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act and Unfair Competition Law, among other laws. Instructure didn't comment.