A new regulation in which every company has to comply will be effective this Friday and it's a good news for privacy advocates. It doesn't matter where we live but we already know this from emails, news and other sources like mail subscription where we receive emails posted by the companies on regular basis like every week or something for instance and there was one time where companies we've email-subscribed to would inform us of this upcoming regulation.
To continue receiving such news through email like that from companies, it is obvious that we need to opt in to do so.
Microsoft on the other hand has extended the compliance to users around the globe in addition to users in Europe as they had done tons of wrong things in the past regarding privacy violation like the ones done with Windows 10 which caused a bunch of lawsuits to be thrown at them for instance. By extending the compliance, Microsoft has another regulation to comply which is Data Subject Rights which include what data to collect, to correct that data, to delete it and even take it to somewhere else.
Even Apple will comply with this new regulation which is a good one for instance as they had established a website called Data Privacy Website where you can see, download and delete the data that is stored on the server. The opportunity will be extended to the rest of the globe although the opportunity is already available to users in Europe at this moment.
Perhaps, it's best to respect the privacy of the users from local and foreign countries and there are already scenarios that even cyber-criminals violate users' privacy regarding of where the users live. This is something people have to be aware of.
