Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. In response to inquiries by The 74, the Future of Privacy Forum, a think tank and co-creator of the pledge, disclosed Tuesday that Illuminate could soon get the boot. Illuminate has never disclosed the full extent of the blunder, even as critics decry significant harm to kids and security experts question why the company is being handed awards instead of getting slapped with sanctions.Īmid demands that Illuminate be held accountable for the breach - and for allegations that it misrepresented its security safeguards - the company could soon face unprecedented discipline for violating the Student Privacy Pledge, a self-regulatory effort by Big Tech to police shady business practices. Since that disclosure in New York City schools, the scope of the breach has only grown, with districts in six states announcing that some 3 million current and former students had become victims.
A few months after education leaders at America’s largest school district announced that a technology vendor had exposed sensitive student information in a massive data breach, the company at fault - Illuminate Education - was recognized with the software industry’s equivalent of the Oscars.
