Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
date linked: 7 May 2026
source: link to article, from theverge.com
Oh wait, this is worse.
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Amazing time of year for this to happen.
Saw an AI “summarize this discussion” button in Canvas today and it was a real downer. It seems to be only instructor-facing, which is better(?) but still makes me angry.
🔗 linkblog: He Wanted Privacy. His College Gave Him None – The Markup'
Canvas: “You can draw conclusions about student participation with our analytics!” Also Canvas: “Mobile page view data aren’t exact, and our analytics only update every 24 hours, so don’t draw too many conclusions, lol.”
Reading through the data available through Canvas analytics, I’m reminded of Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein’s argument (in their excellent book “Data Feminism”) that structured, “clean” data is most necessary for “strangers in the dataset.”
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