Lawsuit From Parent Group Results in Student Privacy Mess
Because of a suit being brought against the state of California by a parent group, roughly 10 million students’ public-school records are about to be given to attorneys — and both parties in the suit blame the other for the upcoming release of personal student data. There will be fewer than ten people who will view […]
Lawsuit Alleges Google Illegally Scanned University E-mails
A lawsuit against Google has been filed in a San Jose federal court alleging that the company scanned their academic-affiliated Gmail accounts. The plaintiffs, four former and current University of California, Berkeley students, claim their email accounts were taken, processed, and kept by Google, now known as Alphabet, for the purposes of analytics, advertising, and tracking between […]
Judge: Lawsuit Over Law School’s Alleged Fraud Will Proceed
A long-running class-action lawsuit which suggests that one of the lowest-performing law schools in the country is guilty of fraud has been officially cleared to go to trial, which could generate serious problems for schools with high tuition rates for low-quality degrees. A California judge has ruled that false-advertising claims made against the Thomas Jefferson School […]