Tech giant Google is unlawfully collecting and selling data on K-12 students' web activities, a pair of California families allege in a federal lawsuit filed this week. North Carolina public schools ...

In a startling case that has sent shockwaves across the U.S. education sector, a Massachusetts man has been sentenced to four ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Several central Ohio school districts have confirmed student, family and educator data may have been accessed in a data breach of a popular student information software.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A lawsuit was filed Monday on behalf of Memphis Shelby County Schools against PowerSchool, a K-12 software provider the school district was using, after a data breach leaked “highly ...

ARTICLE UPDATE 1/31/25: PowerSchool failed to take basic precautions to protect students’ data, leading to the largest breach of American children’s personal information to date, according to a ...

Microsoft has been illegally tracking students and schoolgoers via its 365 Education platform, officials in Austria have ruled. "The Austrian Data Protection Authority ("DSB") issued a decision ...

A K-12 software provider that runs one of the most commonly used student information systems in U.S. schools was hit by a cyberattack that could have exposed the personal information of millions of ...

A Massachusetts man has agreed to plead guilty to hacking into one of the top education tech companies in the United States and stealing tens of millions of schoolchildren’s personal information for ...

Attorney General Ken Paxton sued education technology provider PowerSchool after a data breach last year exposed the personal information of more than 880,000 Texas students and teachers. The ...

PowerSchool, a popular online portal used by many New York school districts to manage student registration, grading, attendance and more, was hit by a data breach in December that saw the unauthorized ...

Redmond argued schools, education authorities are responsible for GDPR An Austrian digital privacy group has claimed victory over Microsoft after the country's data protection regulator ruled the ...

Doug Myers is a digital content producer for CBS Texas. A longtime journalist, Doug has worked for four newspapers in Texas and Louisiana and for three television stations in Texas. He has also spent ...