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DIFC Data Protection Law

29 June 2020

The Dubai International Financial Centre ("DIFC") has issued a new Data Protection Law (the "DP Law"), which will come into force on 1 July 2020. The DIFC has announced there will be a grace period until 1 October 2020 to comply with the DP Law. The DP Law will align the DIFC's regulatory framework more closely with international data protection developments, including the EU's General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") as highlighted in our earlier briefing on the draft law which can be found here

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