Unlike some other tech companies, Microsoft Corp. continues to keep the public informed as it takes more steps toward complying with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation.

Its most recent step, announced last week by deputy general counsel Julie Brill, involved new parental consent requirements for accounts held by children in the EU. Brill, a former Federal Trade Commission commissioner, was hired in April 2017 to lead the company’s global privacy and regulatory affairs group and to oversee its compliance with the new law.