Kirkland joins proposed digital privacy class action lawsuit against Edtech companies

Kirkland & Ellis partners Alyssa C. Kalisky, Rachael A. Rezabek, Robyn E. Bladow, Martin L. Roth and Olivia Adendorff have defended PowerSchool Holdings in a pending digital privacy class action lawsuit. The lawsuit, filed on May 6 by Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro and the Edtech Law Center in California’s Northern District Court, accuses PowerSchool of collecting and storing sensitive student data such as educational records, health data and behavioral history under the guise of promoting education, while in reality it collects the data for its own commercial gain. The lawsuit further alleges that PowerSchool uses the data without consent to develop its own products and sell them to third parties, in violation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act. PowerSchool’s total revenue in 2023 was approximately $700 million. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge James Donato, is 3:24-cv-02706, Cherkin et al v. PowerSchool Holdings, Inc.

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