The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires developers to be more precise about the data they collect and use, and to provide thorough documentation, especially when building apps that handle personal data. This regulation enhances the rights of data subjects by defining several key terms, including data subject, data controller, and data processor, which are crucial for database services. GDPR also emphasizes privacy by design, requiring controllers and processors to take technical and organizational measures to protect the rights of data subjects, such as encrypting data connections, minimizing third-party processors, and implementing encryption-at-rest. To ensure compliance, organizations must implement operational steps like appointing a data protection officer, maintaining up-to-date privacy notices, establishing a data breach plan, and regularly carrying out audits and purging extraneous data. A flexible and developer-friendly database solution, such as Fauna, can help build GDPR-compliant applications with adequate planning and resources, offering features like 100% ACID compliance, data temporality, streaming, and multi-tenancy, as well as data residency in the EU right out of the box.