I work in privacy law and most countries have some sort of GDPR like laws. Even China has one now.

Don't forget Japan has a very similar thing: https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2018/09/quarterly-insights/data-protection-in-japan-to-align-with-gdpr Actually they casually attended most of the discussion in the EU commission while the GDPR was being drafted.

Netherlands has AVG and the AP to enforce it.

• Current government of Turkey carelessly bans websites without any consideration. (youtube, Wikipedia, twitter were all banned or blocked at times. Are they accessible now?)
• Jails people for using encrypted apps or criticizing the government on social media.
• iirc it's the country with the highest number of jailed journalists (or was it the second?)

so, what the heck does KVKK do? It protects who from who?

I have dual citizenship so I put in gdpr requests but my resident country likes to talk about individual rights but then pass laws preferencing legal entities over individuals.

Brazil has the LGPD but it isn't as powerful as the GDPR or even the CCPA fwik

Brazil does, but while such a set laws exist, seeing those laws being enforced is a distant dream.

India recently introduced Digital Personal Data Protection Act. But, unlike what it sounds, it does more harm than good to the privacy of citizens.

Some of the most contentious issues include the wide-ranging exemptions to the government and its agencies, the dilution of powers of the data protection board, and amendment of the Right to Information Act, that rights groups say will significantly weaken the law.

https://www.reuters.com/article/india-tech-lawmaking-idUKL8N38W0JR

Here in Sweden we had Datalagen (1973-1998) PUL (1998-2018) And now we just use GDPR.

DSGVO checking in

Switzerland has a new Federal Act on Data Protection coming up in September.

Nope. And I'm not a corporation, nor do I have the money to buy much in the way of data privacy.

South Africa has the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act