The EU GDPR, which came into force in May 2018, protects all EU citizens from privacy and data breaches. According to the GDPR FAQ:
"The GDPR not only applies to organizations located within the EU but it also applies to all companies processing and holding the personal data of data subjects residing in the European Union, regardless of the company's location."
In other words, if a company is providing services to customers in the European Union, its data handling will need to comply entirely with GDPR. From a DevSecOps point of view, it's related to data collection, handling, storage, backup, modification, transport, and removal—in a secure manner. According to GDPR Article 5, there are six privacy principles: ...
