Instructure Defeats Unspecific Privacy Suit Over Student Data

Instructure Inc. defeated a proposed class action stemming from the alleged improper use of student data after a federal court concluded the plaintiffs failed to provide sufficient information to proceed.

The plaintiffs made an “ambitious pleading” that failed to allege specific facts about Instructure’s data collection program. That lack of specificity “defeats all their claims,” Judge Stanley Blumenfeld Jr. of the US District Court for the Central District of California said Monday.

Instructure, the makers of Canvas LMS, contracts with K-12 schools and districts to provide products that collect educational, demographic, and contact information on students and discloses that data ...