The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect on May 25, putting into place new data privacy regulations that corporations will have to adhere to when dealing with data of users in EU.
That’s why today we are announcing that we will extend the rights that are at the heart of GDPR to all of our consumer customers worldwide. Known as Data Subject Rights, they include the right to know what data we collect about you, to correct that data, to delete it and even to take it somewhere else. Our privacy dashboard gives users the tools they need to take control of their data.”
Along with extending GDPR rights to all users worldwide, Microsoft has also updated its privacy statement to reflect its decision. The move is rather significant for Microsoft, which has been criticized in the past for collecting telemetry data from Windows 10 users (as seen below).
It’s worth noting that Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg also made a similar statement, claiming that the social media platform would extend GDPR’s privacy rights to users worldwide. However, it was later revealed that the company was making changes to its policies to keep the new features away from users outside of the EU.
