Jorja Siemons reports: A Chicago public school student and his parent have sued the school system and several education technology companies for illegally collecting sensitive personal data using the platform Naviance. The college-readiness platform provides planning tools and counseling—and, according the purported class action filed Aug. 18—has been a vehicle by which companies can extract personal data….
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NASCAR Sued for Sharing Customer Viewing History With Facebook
Christopher Brown reports: NASCAR improperly disclosed to Meta Platforms Inc. the video-viewing histories of visitors to its website in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act, a proposed federal class action said. The protection act allows individuals to recoup as much as $2,500 per class member from entities that disclose their video—or similar media—viewing history without express…
Parents Lack Standing to Challenge School’s Gender-Support Program, 4th Circuit Says
Steve Lash reports: Parents cannot challenge in court a Maryland county school board’s confidential gender-identity-support system for students because the parents failed to allege their children had availed themselves of the system, a divided federal appeals court ruled Monday. In its 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit said the parents…
Pepsi Faces Biometric Privacy Suit Over Employee Voiceprints
Jorja Siemons reports: PepsiCo Inc. has been hit with a proposed class action alleging its collection and storage of workers’ voice data broke Illinois’ biometric privacy law. William Hoskin, a former employee at Pepsi’s Chicago distribution center, was never informed by the soda maker that the voice recognition software he was required to use at work…