KSA Sensitive Data Guide - July 2025

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KSA Sensitive Data Guide 2025

This guide helps you understand the key rules for using sensitive personal data under Saudi Arabia’s Personal Data Protection Law (“PDPL”).

August 07, 2025

Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia

This guide helps you understand the key rules for using sensitive personal data under Saudi Arabia’s Personal Data Protection Law (“PDPL”)

In this guide you will learn:

  • What is sensitive data?;
  • What are requirements in Saudi Arabia for using sensitive data?; and
  • How Mohammed AlDhabaan & Partners Eversheds Sutherland (“MDAPES”) - Konexo can support you in meeting these requirements.

This is the first edition of our guide and focuses only on Saudi Arabia. In future editions, we will expand the scope to cover sensitive data rules across other countries in the GCC.

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