Critical Review of Egypt’s Personal Data Protection Law

The British University in Egypt’s Center for Law and Emerging Technologies “CLETs” has prepared a technical guide for Personal Data Protection Law No. 151 of 2020. The book consists of four sections, preceded by an introduction that gives an overview of the law. The first section discusses the conceptual framework of the law, the second section refers to the rights of the data subject and the conditions of processing; the third section refers to the obligations of data controllers and processors for data processing and protection, and finally, the fourth section focuses on the means of law enforcement. This guide was prepared under the supervision of Prof. Hassan Abdel-Hamid, Dean of the Faculty of Law at BUE, in collaboration with a number of jurists, judges, lawyers, specialists in the information technology field, and other key stakeholders.