Illuminate Education faces lawsuit alleging failure to keep user data in the dark
From Daily Bruin, December 1, 2024
The California Supreme Court will soon decide the scope of two education data privacy laws.
An appellate court ruled in July that the case J.M. v. Illuminate Education Inc. remanded the case to the California Supreme Court, which agreed to hear the case in October. J.M., an 11-year-old student who was the lead plaintiff of the case, alleged that Illuminate Education Inc. – a company that was the target of a data breach and did not inform users about the leak for five months – failed to adequately protect his data.
Attorneys for the plaintiff argue that under California’s Confidentiality of Medical Information Act and Customer Records Statute, Illuminate Education could be found liable for the breach.
