In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal which saw some 50 million Facebook users’ personal information collected by a data analytics firm without their knowledge, the social network’s CEO stopped short of promising to extending the privacy protection that it will afford to users in the European Union, to people beyond those borders. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws, which will go into effect on May 25, allow for increased privacy for users of online services and prescribes strong measures and harsh penalties to prevent the misuse of their data. That’s great for the 28 countries that…
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