UAE Data Protection Law: Ensuring Compliance with LinkShadow DSPM
- Requiring explicit consent for data processing
- Granting data subjects rights like access, correction, and deletion
- Mandating data protection impact assessments for high-risk processing
- Requiring appointment of Data Protection Officers in certain cases
- Imposing data breach notification requirements
- The PDPL requires personal data of UAE residents to be stored and processed within the UAE, with strict conditions for cross-border transfers.
- Organizations need to ensure that sensitive data remains under UAE jurisdiction to maintain control and comply with local laws.
- Businesses operating in the UAE that process personal data
- Companies outside the UAE processing data of UAE residents
- Data controllers and processors within the UAE
- Entities outside the UAE processing data related to UAE residents
- Lack of clarity: As a relatively new law, there is still some ambiguity around certain requirements pending further guidance.
- Consent management: Tracking and managing valid consent for data processing is challenging at scale.
- Breach detection and reporting: Identifying and reporting breaches within required timeframes is operationally challenging.
- Data discovery: Identifying and mapping all personal data across complex IT environments can be difficult.
- Cross-border transfers: Ensuring adequate protections for data transferred outside the UAE is complex.
- Many organizations struggle to accurately track where their data is stored across complex multi-cloud and hybrid environments.
- Temporarily or permanently banning data processing activities
- Suspending data transfers to other countries
- Requiring the deletion of personal data