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PDPL: The Saudi Arabia Personal Data Protection Law
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PDPL: The Saudi Arabia Personal Data Protection Law

A practical course to understand how the PDPL works in KSA
Created byBilal Ghafoor
Last updated 5/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • What is data protection and how is it different to information security?
  • Understand the international and national context for a data protection law in Saudi Arabia
  • Learn to identify personal data and basic definitions in the law
  • Learn the principles of the PDPL
  • Be able to assess the risks of non-compliance
  • Records of Processing Activities: the foundation of your PDPL compliance
  • Understand the scope of a privacy program

Course content

6 sections • 22 lectures • 1h 11m total length

  • Welcome!2:01

    Explore the basics of the PDPL, the Saudi Arabia personal data protection law, with foundational definitions, risk awareness, and the core structure of a privacy program.

  • What is Data Protection (and why it isn't the same as Security)?3:01

    Explore how data protection, a set of laws such as the PDPL, governs the data life cycle from collection to deletion, unlike information security, which focuses on safeguards.

  • The national and international context of the PDPL2:58

    Analyze the national and international drivers of the PDPL, including vision 2030, technology and AI safeguards, and Saudi Arabia’s goal to become a regional data leader with strong citizen rights.

  • Data protection and its context

Requirements

  • No requirements - this is a course for those that want a structured introduction

Description

This is a practical introductory course for those who want to understand the foundations of the Saudi Arabian Personal Data Protection Law.

With potential fines in the millions of Riyals, and possible reputational and commercial harm to your organization, it is important that you get to grips with this new law.

This course does talk about the law - but more importantly gives you clear ideas on how to implement a program. this is because we are not lawyers - we are highly certified and experienced consultants with hands on experience of how to effect data protection change.

It covers:

  • the context of data protection

  • definitions and principles

  • risks of non-compliance

  • the foundational solution to data protection: the RoPA

  • running a data protection program

  • further learning resources

Data protection is not about computers and IT - it's about PEOPLE.

And in KSA there aren't enough qualified and trained staff to help make over 1.6 million businesses compliant - this is an excellent first step to bringing data protection into your organization or perhaps a new career.

With over 100 countries globally with data protection laws, this is a step towards a career with ethics and people at the heart of it, in this world where technology is outrunning privacy.

So start this course and join the good fight, protecting personal data and protecting the rights of all individuals.

Who this course is for:

  • Beginners level - staff in compliance, law, IT, risk, data protection and privacy functions

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