The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), that leads to global financial centre in Middle East, South Asia and Africa region, that enacted amendments to select the legislation through the DIFC Laws Amendment Law, Law No. 1 of 2025.
Including the amendments to Data Protection Law to provide an additional protection and rights of action for the Data Subjects in DIFC.
The legislative amendments to provide a clarification to ensure the DIFC Laws to remain in line with the international best practices.
Data Protection Law
DIFC has made amendments to the Data Protection Law to:
- Introduce a Private Right of Action through DIFC Courts, that way enhancing the rights and remedies that are available to data subjects whose personal data to processed in the contravention of the Data Protection Law.
- Additional clarificatory amendments that made, which include;
- An update of the Article 28 on the Data Sharing for clarifying the adequacy referential assessment of the suitability of the third countries to receiving the Personal Data.
- Amendments of the scope of the applications and in extra-territorial scope of the Data Protection Law.
Other Legislative Amendments
The clarificatory of the amendments also have been enacted to respect the Law of Security, Insolvency Law and Employment.
Enactment
The Amendment Law that are enacted on 8th July 2025 that came into effect on 15 July 2025. The Laws can be accessed through DIFC’s legal database.
