A WEEKLY NEWSLETTER ON DATA PRIVACY
I'm Daniel. I'm a technology director and certified data protection officer based in Amman, Jordan. Most professional development on data privacy is a workshop you don't have time for. This is the version that fits in your inbox. Once a week, on what your tools are doing with your data.
THIS WEEK · MICRO PD 009 · MAY 20
How damaging can this really be?
On PowerSchool, Canvas, and the assumption that student data doesn’t matter.
When the Canvas breach hit the news, it pulled me back to PowerSchool. Not the breach itself. The conversations that followed it. Parents, teachers, administrators. Good people who looked at what had been leaked and arrived, more or less independently, at the same conclusion: names, addresses, some grades, emergency contacts, a few medical notes. And then the question, sometimes asked directly and sometimes just hanging in the air.
How damaging can this really be?
Issue 009 is about why that question keeps getting asked, and why the answer keeps being wrong.