Post by @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social

2026-05-08 16:38 UTC

Canvas hack is extremely bad, the &quot;biggest student data privacy disaster in history&quot; because it contains billions of messages between students and their professors, which can be extremely sensitive: &quot;There&#39;s personal circumstances, medical circumstances, accessibility accommodations, disputes, sexual assault allegations, like all sorts of stuff would be getting reported to the instructor using Canvas.&quot; https://www.404media.co/the-biggest-student-data-privacy-disaster-in-history-canvas-hack-shows-the-danger-of-centralized-edtech/

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@rythur@mastodon.social 2026-05-09 00:05

@jasonkoebler@mastodon.social University teacher here: I've been saying this for years. That the introduction of Big Tech into the college/university setting has been a net negative. In some ways, it has ruined what it means to learn. Here, Canvas probably fell behind in what they should have been doing to protect students. Even the Canvas experience has gotten worse, become more cumbersome. Ugh.

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@latenightdef@f-social.techtransthai.org 2026-05-10 05:44

@jasonkoebler@mastodon.social As a student years ago, I was using 4 LMS'es: Canvas, Google Classroom, Microsoft Teams, and the university's self-hosted half-abandoned Moodle. Canvas was a pain to use during the time.

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@atthenius@fediscience.org 2026-05-28 17:12

@jasonkoebler@mastodon.social @jf_718@mas.to So what SHOULD we be recommending our institutions do? Back to our own servers with bigger guardrails? Other platforms? Encrypted emails?

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