Personal Data
Protection Law
of Saudi Arabia
Solutions by SearchInform enable to comply with Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Personal Data Protection Law, issued by the Saudi Data & Artificial Intelligence Authority (“SDAIA”).
Scope of the Law
The Law is extraterritorial. It is applied to any operations of data processing in the KSA, and has the extraterritorial implementation in regard to personal data of KSA residents.
The Law applies to any organization or company, which processes and/or collects personal data.
Key principles of the Law
Purpose
Collect and process personal data for a legitimate purpose
Time
Process personal data no longer than a legitimate purpose requires
Access
Take measures to ensure that personal data is accurate and up to date; provide data objects with right to access and modify data
Security
Entity must ensure data security by adopting appropriate technical and organizational measures
Records
Entity must be able to demonstrate compliance with the PDPL with appropriate records
Penalty
for non-compliance
for non-compliance
Fines up to SAR 5,000,000 Imprisonment
up to two years
up to two years
SearchInform solutions ensure meeting
requirements of Saudi Arabia’s PDPL by
empowering its clients to:
requirements of Saudi Arabia’s PDPL by
empowering its clients to:
Control that personal data is collected/stored/ processed in accordance with the purposes prescribed by the act
Ensure transparency: what types of personal data are stored within the organization and where exactly
To promote implementation of the necessary technical measures for personal data protection
Prevent violation of requirements for cross-border transmission of personal data
Provide the authorized person/owner of personal data with access to personal data stored in the organization and the ability to completely delete personal data
Secure personal data processing and tansmission and carry out related processes in accordance with the principles of PDPL
Have the necessary technical means to create and store records on the processing of personal data as evidence of compliance with the PDPL (as well as for reports, informing on incidents, investigations)
How to meet requirements with SearchInform?
1
Classify data and bring the order to the storage
2
Conduct audit of access rights to data
3
Trace the full lifecycle of files
4
Regularly monitor actions with data
5
Prevent data misuse by tacking full control over data transmission channels
Compliance with Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Personal Data Protection Law
Personal Data Protection Law
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