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Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, November 9, 2024

LLRX

Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness.

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Can EdTech Vendors Force Parents into Arbitration?–Shanahan v. IXL

Eric Goldman

IXL Learning sells edtech subscription services to schools. The plaintiffs claim that IXL “collected and monetized the data of millions of school-age children who used the IXL platform without parental consent,” in violation of the ECPA and state law. IXL sought to send the case to arbitration. But how? IXL could impose a mandatory clickthrough on its users, but the primary users are children with limited capacity to agree to TOSes.

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