Microsoft will expand European Union’s GDPR rights and protection to all of its global customers
As on Friday 25th of May, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation — popularly known as GDPR — officially becomes law, Microsoft has committed it will extend the privacy rights guaranteed under the new regulations to all of its customers worldwide.
In a blog, Julie Brill – corporate vice president and deputy general counsel, Microsoft, wrote, “GDPR is an important step forward for privacy rights in Europe and around the world, and we’ve been enthusiastic supporters of GDPR since it was first proposed in 2012. It sets a strong standard for privacy and data protection by empowering people to control their personal information.”
“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,” Brill said, adding that Microsoft has had more than 1,600 engineers across the company working on GDPR projects and made substantial investments to redesign its tools, systems and processes to comply with the new regulations.
