Cannot copy files in Seagate portable Hard disks (Ownership problem)

I have recently purchased a Seagate Backup Plus portable hard disk (2TB), I am mostly using it in Ubuntu system hence I formatted it with the following command

sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb

where /dev/sdb is it's path and can be seen from this command

sudo parted -l

formatting went fine without errors but after that, I observed that I cannot be able to copy any file in it as I don't have permission. As can be seen from the below screenshot only root has permission

lsblk -f

How can I allow the nonroot user to copy / paste / modify files in the portable hard disk

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