GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is the EU's comprehensive privacy regulation enacted in 2018. It establishes data protection rights for EU residents and applies to any company processing their personal data regardless of where the company is based. Non-compliance risks fines up to 4% of global annual revenue (or €20M, whichever is greater) and other regulatory enforcement. Compliance requires documented data practices, user consent mechanisms, data subject rights handling (access, deletion, portability), data breach notification procedures (72-hour to supervisory authority), and other operational requirements. It's the regulation that fundamentally changed how companies globally handle personal data.
The key requir...