i-Ready Lawsuit: Parent's Privacy Fight in Classrooms

0:00It's April 20th, this is Tampa Bay News today, local news powered by AI. A popular online learning tool called I Ready used in nearly 60 Florida school districts and across the country faces a lawsuit over student privacy. A California mom, Nikki Petrossi, sued the company behind it, curriculum associates claiming they collect way too much personal info from kids during. Reading and math lessons, the suit says, I ready grabs over 80 types of data like names, birth dates, race, contact details, IP addresses and even behavioral and psychological profiles that could shake students' futures. Petrossi, an online safety advocate, worries about who gets this info and how it's used, stressing parents' rights to protect their kids from data, exploitation. Her legal team points out this goes beyond basic tracking into building detailed profiles on children. Forensic checks bound data heading to Google's ad business and analytics, which they call straight up commercial activity.

1:02Curriculum associates called the lawsuit an ideological push through courts instead of lawmakers and they're moved to toss the case. With I Ready in so many classrooms, this fight could reshape how edtech companies handle kid data, forcing schools everywhere to rethink privacy. Privacy. First.