Working to protect students, parents, teachers, and schools from the exploitative practices of the EdTech industry
If you have a problem where school meets technology, we’re here to help.
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What is EdTech?
EdTech companies provide digital technologies to individuals, schools, and school districts that range dramatically in purpose and function. And the industry’s reach is far and growing, which spells trouble for children.
The kinds of harm children suffer by EdTech vary by product type. Click here to view a categorical breakdown of the primary EdTech software and platforms.
EdTech Overview
- There are more than 25,000 companies in the K-12 EdTech industry operating the U.S.
- The global EdTech industry is valued at more than $250B and is projected to nearly triple by 2027.
- School districts use on average about 2,600 EdTech products.
- Nearly all EdTech apps share students’ personal information.
- Schools and EdTech companies are prime targets for cybercriminals.
- Research continues to show the harms to kids’ health and wellness posed by screens.
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EdTech Exposed
Learn more about EdTech’s harmful practices and what you can do to protect your family.
Problems for Parents
EdTech infringes on parents’ right to parent as they choose.
The use of digital technologies in the classroom can limit parents’ ability to:
- Support their kids’ health and wellness
- Protect their kids from content that does not align with their family’s values
- Protect their kids from cyberbullying
- Set and maintain screen-time limits
- Provide their kids safe and healthy independence
- Limit commercialization in their kids’ lives
- Understand the process of their kids’ learning
- Understand others’ decision-making about their kids
- Help their kids get into the school or career of their choice
- Have access to and control over their kids’ information
- Choose whether to consent to practices that directly affect their kids
- Safeguard their own privacy and information
Issues With EdTech
- Invasions of privacy
- Harms to health and wellness
- Access to inappropriate content
- Unhealthy engagement
- Data insecurity
- Commercial manipulation
- Discrimination
- No access to information
- No consent
Active Cases
Updated: 04.08.2025
Filed on: 01.14.2025
Powerschool Data Breach Litigation
At various times in 2024, PowerSchool’s data systems were reportedly breached by hackers. When one of the breaches was disclosed in January 2025, K-12 students and their parents sued PowerSchool, a learning management and student information management system, asserting claims for negligence, breach of contract, and unjust enrichment.
Filed on: 04.07.2025
Google Data Privacy Litigation
K-12 students and their parents sued Google, which markets products to schools that include the Chromebook, Chrome OS, the Chrome browser, and a suite of cloud-based web applications, alleging that it generates, collects, uses, and shares information about them without proper consent. Plaintiffs assert claims under various state and federal privacy laws.
EdTech Law Center in the News
Julie Liddell serves on panel for Global Class Actions and Mass Torts Perfect Law Conference
The Global Class Actions and Mass Torts Perfect Law Conference, held in London, is a prestigious international event that focuses on the concept of collective redress, which refers to legal mechanisms that allow a large group of individuals who have suffered similar harm or injury to pursue their claims together as a single entity.
Julie will be discussing children information protection laws and how her work is supporting children’s privacy in the U.S. and abroad.
Google Hit With Lawsuit Over Data Collection on School Kids
Edtech Co. Instructure Faces Parent Suit Over Data Harvesting
Who We Are
If you have a problem where school meets technology, we can help. The EdTech Law Center (ETLC) works to hold education technology companies legally accountable for the harm they inflict on students, families, and schools.
ETLC’s mission is to keep education free and not conditioned on submission to persistent surveillance and commercial exploitation of student information.
Julie and Andrew Liddell have spent years researching the harms that digital technologies pose to children and advocating for greater protections for children online. They are turning to the courts to help families and schools protect their rights from tech companies that put profits before individuals’ health, safety, and privacy.
Parents’ EdTech Bill of Rights
By sending your child to school as is your right and duty, you don’t give up as many rights over your child’s data, health, and safety as tech companies and school administrators would have you believe.
As a parent with a child in K-12 education, some of your rights are the right:
- To expect that your children are safe at school offline and online
- To receive an education free of persistent and invasive surveillance and exploitation
- To expect that school officials have done their due diligence before adopting digital products
- To know what digital products your children use at school and to be informed of the risks of harms those products pose to children
- To not have the burden of online safety shifted to you or your children
- To receive and understand those products’ terms of service, and to decline those terms of service or revoke your consent at any time
- To have prompt access to and control over any data collected about your child
- To review the school’s contracts with digital-product vendors
- To be promptly notified if any student has been harmed through use of a digital product
- To voice your concerns about your child’s use of digital products and to be respectfully heard
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If your child was harmed by EdTech, you can fight back! Contact our team now for a confidential case evaluation.
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