Christopher Brown reports:
PowerSchool Holdings LLC and the Chicago Board of Education are set to face most claims of a proposed class action alleging they illegally collected and disclosed students’ personal information through a higher-education preparedness platform.
The anonymous plaintiff and his parent adequately pleaded claims of breach of contract and violations of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Stored Communications Act, and the California Invasion of Privacy Act, Judge Jorge L. Alonso of the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said Wednesday.
Read more at Bloomberg Law. (sub. req.)
The case is: Q.J. v. PowerSchool Holdings LLC et al, 1:23-cv-05689 , N.D. Ill.
Note that this case is not the litigation over the massive data breach PowerSchool experienced in 2024 that was disclosed earlier this year.