Laura Riposo VanDruff Quoted in Privacy Daily

Partner Laura Riposo VanDruff was quoted in ​“EdTech Joint Settlement Shows Enforcers’ Focus on Protecting Kids’ Data” by Privacy Daily. The article reports on a joint settlement between three states and the software company Illuminate Education. The settlement resolved claims that Illuminate failed to protect students’ data with basic security measures. 

From breaches of ​“student information that could reveal sensitive information about a
minor” to ​“a company that collects social security numbers,” the ​“principles of protecting that data are effectively the same,” Laura said. ​“The circumstances of any single breach are likely to be unique, but how you protect against that is by having a layered defense strategy, and it was the failure of” that defense ​“that we see alleged in each of the actions filed by the attorneys general.”

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