abbreviation for General Data Protection Regulation: a legal act of the European Union intended to protect people's personal data (= information that is about them and no one else)

The GDPR came into force on 25 May 2018.

GDPR applies across all of Europe but each individual country can make its own small changes. 《通用数据保护条例》适用于整个欧洲，但每个国家都可以做一些小的改动。