Law note · Saudi Arabia

Personal Data Protection Law, breach notification

cite Royal Decree No. M/19, Art. 20 stage IN FORCE in force since 2023-09-14 kind Breach notification binds public and private bodies reviewed 2026-08-29

What it requires

An app that suffers a breach, damage, or illegal access affecting the personal data of an individual in Saudi Arabia must notify the Competent Authority upon knowing of the breach, and must separately notify the Data Subject where the breach would cause damage to their data or prejudice their rights and interests, following the Implementing Regulations' procedure.

When LexLint raises it

crawls_web
trains_models
processes_biometrics
processes_voice

What we found

Art. 20 requires the Controller to notify the Competent Authority upon knowing of any breach, damage, or illegal access to personal data, in accordance with the Implementing Regulations, and separately to notify the Data Subject of any breach that would cause damage to their data or prejudice their rights and interests.

No fixed notification window (hours or days) is stated in the Law itself; the specific timeline is deferred to the Implementing Regulations, whose exact notification-timeline article was not individually isolated in this research pass.

Primary source

official statute text, SDAIA document library

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