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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... we are updating our privacy policy.

In the run-up to GDPR, the European Union's new data privacy directive (which goes into effect Friday), people across the internet have been bombarded with emails and pop-ups from brands disclosing updates to their terms of service.

SEE ALSO:How to use GDPR to clean out your inbox once and for all

Of course, this means there have also been a lot of memes on the subject. Here's a personal favorite:

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But perhaps the greatest GDPR meme of all comes from Star Wars: The Last Jedidirector Rian Johnson.

You're probably familiar with the classic Star Wars opening crawl, which gives the audience a primer about what went down, plot-wise, prior to the events of the film. But an opening crawl from any point in the past week -- even in another galaxy, tbh -- would probably look like this:

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Honestly, an "ongoing commitment to transparency" is more than can be said about most governments in the Star Wars cinematic universe.

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