Has your child been harmed by their school-issued laptop or tablet?
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.
The EdTech Law Center takes on exploitative AI companies
Over half of all students use AI chatbots every day, often on their school computers without their parents ever knowing. AI chatbots available by default on millions of student computers and bots popular among young people have been rated “Unacceptably Dangerous” for users under 18 by independent researchers, and extract some of their most personal information to feed AI companies’ trillion-dollar models.
The EdTech Law Center is working to hold these companies accountable for the harms they inflict on young people. Learn more.
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.
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
Filed on: 10.13.2026
Doe v. OpenAI Foundation
On October 13, 2026, the EdTech Law Center joined a coalition of firms in filing a class action lawsuit alleging that OpenAI stole sensitive information from millions of children without valid consent.
Updated: 10.05.2026
Filed on: 08.26.2026
Lower Merion School District
On August 26, 2026, seven families from Lower Merion School District outside Philadelphia, PA, sued the District, the Superintendent, and certain members of the board asserting violations of their right under the Fourteenth Amendment to make decisions regarding their children’s health, safety, and privacy, and to direct their education and upbringing.
EdTech Law Center in the News
New Class Action Alleges OpenAI Designed ChatGPT to Steal Children’s Personal Information
Maryland’s Montgomery County Council of PTAs (MCCPTA) survey results on school Chromebook use
Nicki Reisberg talks to Andy Liddell about her lawsuit against SeeSaw and what parents need to know about kids’ data collection.
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