ARTICLE · 15 SEPTEMBER 2021

UAE's Project 50 New Data Law

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The UAE is celebrating its golden jubilee (50 years as a unified nation), and the ‘Projects of the 50' initiative is a series of social and economic development projects that the UAE will announce to celebrate the milestone.

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The UAE is celebrating its golden jubilee (50 years as a unified nation), and the 'Projects of the 50' initiative is a series of social and economic development projects that the UAE will announce to celebrate the milestone.

The UAE Data Law to be unveiled is part of the first of such projects announced. This new law is the first UAE federal law to be drafted in partnership with major technology companies. As the Emirates News Agency (WAM) reported, the UAE Data Law is intended to empower individuals to control how their personal data is used, stored and shared in order to protect privacy of individuals and institutions and limit entities' use of personal data for profit.

When UAE Minister for Artificial Intelligence, Omar Al Olama, stated in 2018 that data is the new oil, few would have expected the leaps and bounds by which the prevalence of data and 'big data' grew. Now, he states, that the government's role is not hinder the prosperity of 'economic

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