Edmodo updated their privacy policy.  A lot of other K-12 software companies are adopting the general policies required by the European Union's General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).  How does this impact US schools, if at all? Below is the text sent via email today from Edmodo: Hi there, Our goal is to make sure that you love using Edmodo. Part of that is giving you the best possible experience as you use our service today, tomorrow, and in the future. We believe it's critical to protect your privacy as part of that experience. We also want to be as transparent as possible about the personal data that we collect and use to provide this service to you. That's why we're reachin...

From an email annoucement earlier today: Safeguarding the trust and security of our users is of the utmost importance to Edmodo. We are reaching out to you because Edmodo recently learned about a security incident potentially affecting the accounts of Edmodo users. We promptly retained leading information security experts to investigate this incident and reported the incident to law enforcement.  Our investigation has now confirmed that user names, email addresses, and hashed passwords were acquired by an unauthorized third party. The passwords were "hashed" (or encrypted) using the strong and robust bcrypt algorithm, and they were also "salted," which adds an additional layer of securi...