'The Biggest Student Data Privacy Disaster in History': Canvas Hack Shows the Danger of Centralized EdTech

date linked: 8 May 2026

source: link to article, from 404media.co

Some important observations by Ian Linkletter in this interview.

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Amazing time of year for this to happen.

Screenshot reading “Canvas, Canvas Beta and Canvas Test are currently unavailable. Investigating - We are currently investigating this issue.”

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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.

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