Egypt – President endorses Personal Data Protection Law

guest · Jul 27, 2020

Sisi endorses law on personal data protection
July 18, 2020
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/89794/Sisi-endorses-law-on-personal-data-protection

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi endorsed on Friday Law No. 151 of 2020 on the protection of personal data.

The law is meant to promote the security of personal data, which is being processed and stored online. It also sets a legal framework to regulate data transmission with other countries.
The law prohibits gathering or processing individuals’ data or spreading them by any means without the permission of the concerned individuals, except in cases authorized legally.

The law will be imposed on Egyptians inside the country and expatriates alike. It will be also enforced on non-Egyptians inside and outside Egypt as long as the data in question belong to Egyptian citizens or foreigners staying inside Egypt.
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The law will formulate obligations on both the data controller and the data processor as two of the active elements when dealing with personal data, whether by collecting, transferring, exchanging, storing, analyzing, or processing data in any way.
Amendments to the law
Article no. 19 of the law stipulates the establishment of a general authority under the name “personal data protection centre,” to protect personal data and regulate its availability and procession. [...]
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EASTER · Jul 27, 2020

Interesting. Thanks @mood

Long gone is paper trails and my favorite, 007 microdot

guest · Sep 30, 2020

Egypt: Egypt issues new data protection law
September 28, 2020
https://insightplus.bakermckenzie.c...emirates-egypt-issues-new-data-protection-law

After several years of debate, the Egyptian government has introduced the Republic’s first standalone data protection law, which aims to regulate and protect citizens’ data online.

On 15 July 2020, Resolution No. 151 of 2020 (the Law) (available in Arabic here) was published in the Official Gazette. The provisions under the new Law are modeled on the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Law adopts similar concepts and definitions. It is hoped that the new Law will help Egypt attract foreign investment by increasing consumer confidence in electronic data processing and setting clear parameters for companies looking to capitalize on the growth of the digital economy.
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The Law will enter into force three months from when it was published in the Official Gazette (namely, on 15 October 2020). As part of the new Law, the Minister of Communications and Information Technology will issue the Law’s Regulation (Regulation) within a further six months from the date on which the Law enters into force in Egypt.

The Regulation will provide further detail on the role of the new regulator and how it will implement the new Law. Companies will have a 12-month grace period to comply with the Law from the date of publication of the Regulation (i.e., compliance is expected to be required within a minimum of 18 months from 15 October 2020, if the Regulation is issued effectively within 6 months. It may take longer to issue the Regulation).
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In this alert we provide an overview of key provisions in order to help businesses prepare for the enforcement of the new Law.
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