A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Coursera

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Coursera
Jonathan Mayer, Web Policy, 2014/09/12
Coursera is learning yet another lesson learned long ago by real LMS providers: you can't fake your way to privacy and security; you have to have real measures in place. Stanford's Jonathan Mayer identifies three major flaws:

1. Any teacher can dump the entire user database, including over nine million names and email addresses.
2. If you are logged into your Coursera account, any website that you visit can list your course enrollments.
3. Coursera’s privacy-protecting user IDs don’t do much privacy protecting. More...