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Saudi Arabia: Opened consultation on Personal Data Protection Law Amendments including cross-border data transfer regulation

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Opened consultation on Personal Data Protection Law Amendments including cross-border data transfer regulation

On 20 November 2022, the Saudi Authority for Data and Artificial Intelligence released a draft amendment to the Personal Data Protection Law of 2021 and opened a public consultation until 20 December 2022. Under this amendment, the transfer of data …

Scope

Policy Area
Data governance
Policy Instrument
Cross-border data transfer regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
cross-cutting
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
executive
Government Body
data protection authority

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2022-11-20
in consultation

On 20 November 2022, the Saudi Authority for Data and Artificial Intelligence released a draft amen…

2022-12-20
in consultation

On 20 December 2022, the Saudi Authority for Data and Artificial Intelligence closed the public con…

2023-03-21
adopted

On 21 March 2023, the Saudi Arabia Council of Ministers adopted the amendments to the Personal Data…

2023-09-14
in grace period

On 14 September 2023, the Personal Data Protection Law Amendments entered into force with a grace p…

2024-09-14
in force

On 14 September 2024, the Amended Personal Data Protection Law is implemented. Firstly, the Law sti…