https://qz.com/1255680/facebook-gdpr-updates-heres-how-they-affect-you/

On May 25, a set of regulations will go into effect across the European Union that will change how businesses handle the online data of their customers, giving users far more visibility into what companies know about them.

Facebook—one of the largest data collectors on the web—is currently in the middle of a massive scandal around the way that it’s handled the data of millions of its users. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has apologized publicly and has committed to making sure it’s more transparent in the way it shares users’ data. In the EU, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation is forcing the company’s hand. As it’s hinted recently, Facebook will be introducing a new set of privacy protections as a result of GDPR, and it outlined what’s changing in a blog post April 17. These updates will affect all users, regardless of whether they’re in Europe or not.