[MisterWebz]

According to the General Data Protection Regulation(GDPR) which is an expansion of the current Data Protection Directive and is planned to take effect in 2016, companies that are located outside the EU and that process EU citizen's data are supposed to be compliant with the GDPR. The GDPR allows much greater control over one's own data.

The current Data Protection Directive apparently does not take into account many of the foreign online services, but the new GDPR does.

On wikipedia:

The proposed new European Union Data Protection Regulation (a draft for which was unveiled in January 2012) extends the scope of the EU data protection law to all foreign companies processing data of European Union residents.[1]

I'm wondering if and how the EU will enforce this law?

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Directive , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulat...