The Bahrain Personal Data Protection (‘PDPL’ or ‘Law’) was enacted in 2018 to put a framework over capturing, managing and using data. This Law came into effect in Bahrain on August 1, 2019. Given the significance of this legislation, athGADLANG, a regional advisory, assurance, accounting and tax consulting firm hosted a webinar on the topic last month along with senior industry experts.
“Data has been at the centre of everybody's attention and the amount of data created today is approximately 2.5 quintillion bytes per day which is huge! But with this, comes the problem of data theft,” athGADLANG Global CEO and webinar moderator Arshad Gadit said. He went on to appreciate the efforts of Ministry of Justice, who have been assigned the role of implementation of the Law.
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