Isaiah Poritz reports:
Google LLC is unlawfully using its products—ubiquitous in K-12 education—to secretly gather information about school age children, substituting the consent of the school for that of parents, a proposed class action filed in California federal court said Monday.
The tech giant collects not only traditional education records “but thousands of data points that span a child’s life,” and “neither students nor their parents have agreed to this arrangement, according to the US District Court for the Northern District of California complaint.
Google’s “Workspace for Education,” a suite of cloud-based productivity apps marketed to schools, is used by nearly 70% of K-12 schools in the US, the complaint said.
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The complaint alleges violations of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, the Federal Wiretap Act, and the California Invasion of Privacy Act.
George Feldman McDonald PLLC, EdTech Law Center PLLC, and Gustafson Gluek PLLC represent the plaintiffs.
The case is Schwarz v. Google LLC, N.D. Cal., No. 3:25-cv-03125, 4/7/25.
Read more at Bloomberg Law. See also Google accused of harming kids by secretly grabbing data from school-provided tech products (Techxplore)
h/t, Joe Cadillic