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Dubai International Financial Centre’s Updated Data Protection Law, Part 2: Implementing a modern, global law in a UAE financial free zone
Journal of Data Protection & Privacy,
4
(4),
362-371
(2021)
Abstract
The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), purveyor of Data Protection Law, DIFC Law No. 5 of 2020, is the result of a legislative overhaul aimed at creating an environment of ethical data management. The Updated DP Law combines international data protection standards of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the UK Data Protection Act 2018, the California Consumer Privacy Act and others with innovative, new concepts that work for the DIFC’s FinTech/X-tech incubator. Ultimately, the goal is to obtain adequacy recognition by the European Commission. This paper is Part 2 in a series that tells us how such a law was created and how a small jurisdiction in the United Arab Emirates is making big strides in data protection.
Keywords: data protection; DIFC; Middle East; UAE; adequacy
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Author's Biography
Lori Baker FIP, Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Data Protection and Privacy, is an experienced attorney with expertise in data protection and regulatory compliance as well as broad practice in commercial contracting. She is qualified in both the United States (in the states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania) and the United Kingdom and is a Fellow of Information Privacy as certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Lori now provides data protection and regulatory compliance (anti-money laundering [AML], economic substance and common reporting standard) strategy and support in one of the leading financial centres in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia (MEASA) region, while in her own time she writes and speaks on various data protection and compliance topics. Prior to relocating to Dubai in 2016, Lori was based in London for ten years. She worked for Fieldfisher LLP in the technology and outsourcing team as a senior privacy and cybersecurity associate. She also held in-house roles as Senior Compliance and Privacy Counsel at Dun & Bradstreet, Head of Ethics and Compliance at Orange Business Services and Global Regulatory/Privacy Specialist at BT Global Services. Lori attended DeSales University, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in politics with a minor in philosophy, followed by Widener University School of Law (the Delaware Law School), where she was awarded a Juris Doctor with an emphasis in international business transactions. While at Widener, Lori enrolled in the Geneva International Law Institute, directed by instructors from the World Trade Organization, the United Nations and other international organisations.
