This post is adapted from 7 tweets I made on December 22nd, 2019. There is still debate within the educational technology community about whether Instructure’s acquisition (which may be falling apart) constitutes a sale of student data. I believe it does. The data is an asset of the company, and is transferred along with the […]
Read more "Does selling a company mean selling its data?"This post is adapted from 12 tweets I made on December 5th, 2019. Welcome to my fun and chill evening, which I spent diving into the Instructure privacy policy because I like to feel bad 😬 You are now entering the privacy zone! bEwArE On October 28th, 2019, Instructure updated their Privacy Policy for the […]
Read more "New changes to Instructure Privacy Policy"This post is adapted from 35 tweets I made on December 6th, 2019. On December 4th last year, Instructure (the company that makes Canvas) announced that they had entered into an agreement to sell the company to a private equity firm (Thoma Bravo) for two billion dollars. Every owner of Instructure stock stands to receive […]
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