Microsoft Will Extend GDPR Privacy Protections to All Users, Not Just Europeans

Extract from Catalin Cimpanu’s article “Microsoft Will Extend GDPR Privacy Protections to All Users, Not Just Europeans”

Microsoft said this week it plans to extend and enforce the new GDPR privacy protections to all of its customers, not just those based in EU countries.

“We will extend the rights that are at the heart of GDPR to all of our consumer customers worldwide,” said Julie Brill, Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel for Microsoft, in a statement on Monday.

“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,” Brill said.

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