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title: "Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL)"
url: "https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/entities/pdpl"
language: "en"
type: "Legislation"
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# Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL)

Saudi Arabia's personal data protection law, supervised by SDAIA.

Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) appears in 3 stories in the Cicada archive, from 2021 to 2023.

## Every story, oldest first

- 2021-09-16 — [Saudi Arabia issues its first Personal Data Protection Law](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/pdpl-royal-decree-2021): Royal Decree M/19 of 16 September 2021, approving Cabinet Resolution 98 of 14 September, issued the Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL), which was published in the Official Gazette on 24 September 2021.
- 2023-03-27 — [Royal decree amends the Personal Data Protection Law](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/pdpl-amended-2023): Royal Decree M/148 of 27 March 2023 amended the Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL).
- 2023-09-14 — [PDPL takes effect; full enforcement follows in September 2024](https://cicadaconsultancy.online/en/news/pdpl-in-force-2023): The Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA) published the Implementing Regulations of the Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) and the Personal Data Transfer Regulations on 7 September 2023, a week before the amended law took effect on 14 September 2023.

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Cicada · The signal in Saudi AI.
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