UAE Data Protection Series
The PDPL Readiness Scorecard
Ten questions. Five minutes. A clear-eyed view of where your organisation stands against the UAE Personal Data Protection Law.
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The UAE Personal Data Protection Law (Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021) applies to almost every business that handles personal data in the Emirates — customers, employees, marketing lists, the lot. Most SMEs have not yet started. Answer honestly; the score is only useful if it hurts a little.
Your first three moves — in order
The full PDPL Readiness Kit is coming.
Gap-assessment worksheets, a processing-register template, vendor contract checklists and a breach-response runbook. Subscribers to Obiter Dictum get it first.
Subscribe to Obiter DictumThis scorecard is a general awareness tool, not legal advice, and no lawyer–client relationship is created by using it. Your score reflects only your answers to ten deliberately simplified questions; a genuine readiness assessment requires review of your actual processing activities. Free-zone regimes (DIFC, ADGM) have their own data protection laws and are outside this tool's scope.
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