https://qz.com/1288072/facebook-pop-ups-the-social-network-is-rolling-out-its-gdpr-controls-to-users-worldwide/ > If you’re an internet user, chances are you’ve recently been getting heaps of emails and notifications from your favorite apps and newsletters you might not even remember signing up for, asking you to opt in to keep getting marketing emails. Facebook is no exception. > Facebook has been showing pop-up messages to EU citizens about how it is using their data, and asking for continued access to the information it has on them. The company is obliged to do this for EU users under a new law, referred to as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which companies have to adhere to by Friday, May 25. Following scrutiny of its data practices, Facebook had also promised that it would make the controls it introduced for GDPR available to users worldwide. And on May 23, it announced that it would start showing similar pop-ups to users outside the EU.