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Personal Data Protection in Egypt: Law 151/2020 and Regulations 816/2025

Egypt’s data-protection framework covers electronic collection, processing, storage, use, transfer, data-subject rights and organizational obligations.

HR departments process candidate, employee, payroll and client data. They should map the data held, document purposes and lawful bases, apply retention rules, restrict access, control service providers and prepare procedures for rights requests and incidents.

HR review points

  • Inventory candidate, employee and client data.
  • Define purpose, legal basis and retention.
  • Restrict access and document disclosures.
  • Prepare rights-request and incident procedures.

Official source: Personal Data Protection Center

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