Saudi Arabia PDPL: What You Need To Know
October 04, 2021
The National Centre for Documents and Archives Royal Court published, on 24 September 2021, the new Personal Data Protection Law ('PDPL'), implemented by Royal Decree M/19 of 17 September 2021 in the Official Gazette.
This PDPL represents Saudi Arabia's first comprehensive data protection law and covers key principles such as purpose limitation and data minimisation, controller obligations, data subject rights, and penalties for breach of the law.
The PDPL is set to enter into effect on 23 March 2022.
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