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the gdpr or general data protection regulation is a new law that lets you residents have more control over their personal data it lets them request all the data that a company has collected on them it also lets them ask a company to delete all that data and it requires companies to tell you residents within 72 hours of a data breach that affects their data the gdpr applies to EU residents and any company with a digital presence in europe is required to comply with it so that includes companies all over the world including tech giants like Facebook Google Microsoft and Apple the law doesn't apply to people outside the EU some companies like Microsoft and Facebook have said that they will apply the gdpr s protections to all people who use its products and that will probably affect how those companies use their data but it doesn't mean that you have the protection of that law if you're outside the EU so you can't file any formal complaints or bring down any regulatory action on the companies unless you're inside the EU companies that violate the gdpr can face very high fines they go up to as high as 20 million euros or 4% of the company's annual revenue from the year before it does remain to be seen how high those fines will go in real life when countries begin to enforce the law you