'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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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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