United Arab Emirates

Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data (UAE PDPL)

12 controls. 297 other frameworks in our corpus share controls with it. Here is all of it, and how much of it you are already doing.

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12 controls 297 frameworks share controls with it United Arab Emirates verified against its source document

Every control below is one this framework asks for. The right hand column counts how many other frameworks in our corpus carry the same control, which is the difference between doing this work once and doing it again for the next standard.

There is no implementation kit for this framework yet. The control list and the overlap above are free and complete.

What you already have

Frameworks whose controls overlap this one, most first. If you run any of them, the count is roughly what you have already evidenced.

If you runShared controls
Bahrain PDPL9measure it →
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)9measure it →
GDPR9measure it →
Iceland Data Protection and Processing of Personal Data Act (Act No. 90/2018)9measure it →
India DPDP Act9measure it →
Indiana Consumer Data Protection Act9measure it →
Iowa Consumer Data Protection Act9measure it →
Jamaica Data Protection Act 20209measure it →
Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act9measure it →
Law No. 172-13 on the Protection of Personal Data9measure it →
Ley Orgánica de Protección de Datos Personales (LOPDP)9measure it →
LGPD9measure it →

Every control

CodeControlAlso in
UAE-PDPL-Art.10Data Protection Officer (DPO) (UAE PDPL Article 10)217
UAE-PDPL-Art.11_12_13_14_15_16Data subject rights (UAE PDPL Articles 11-16)38
UAE-PDPL-Art.18_19_20_21Security measures, controller/processor relationship, DPIA (UAE PDPL Articles 18-21)244
UAE-PDPL-Art.1_2_3Scope, definitions and applicability (UAE PDPL Articles 1-3)1
UAE-PDPL-Art.22_23_24Cross-border data transfers (UAE PDPL Articles 22-24)58
UAE-PDPL-Art.25_26_27_28_29UAE Data Office establishment, powers, penalties, complaints (UAE PDPL Articles 25-29)85
UAE-PDPL-Art.4_5Lawful basis and principles for processing personal data (UAE PDPL Articles 4-5)184
UAE-PDPL-Art.6_7Sensitive personal data and children's data (UAE PDPL Articles 6-7)136
UAE-PDPL-Art.8Records of processing activities (UAE PDPL Article 8)64
UAE-PDPL-Art.9Data breach notification (UAE PDPL Article 9)1
UAE-PDPL-FreeZonesCoordination with DIFC, ADGM and sectoral data protection regimes56
UAE-PDPL-StatusUAE PDPL status, executive regulations, UAE Data Office guidance evolution72

Tell me when Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data (UAE PDPL) files something new

One email when a public company newly discloses something this framework governs, naming the company and what our corpus says it puts in scope. Nothing else, and one click to stop.

What an auditor will ask you to produce

The artefacts named on the failure modes this framework speaks to.

  • Processor agreement template
  • Security measure inventory + testing
  • RoPA + DPIA records
  • DPO appointment + notification + qualifications
  • Records of processing register
  • Breach response procedure + 72-hour SLA
  • data subject notification template (Thai)
  • risk assessment criteria
  • communication channel records
  • incident notification procedure

How programmes fail on this

Failure modes named by this framework and others. Each opens the full record.

What this page is

A control-level reference for Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data (UAE PDPL), drawn from our framework corpus. Control codes and titles are references to the standard, not reproductions of it. The overlap counts and the auditor artefacts are our own work and are the part you will not find elsewhere.

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