Egypt’s new Cabinet has approved a draft law whose aim is to protect personal data as a result of President Al-Sisi’s directives of securing data in Egypt. The news was announced by Amr Talaat, Minister of Communications and Information Technology. It was also reported that the draft law would need to be passed on to the State Council prior to Parliament for approval and prior to the break-down of its executive regulations. According to Egypt Today, this new law’s objective is to protect all citizens’ ”fully or partially electronically treated personal data.” It would also help in terms of the organization of electronic marketing activities as well as data transfer between miscellaneous parties. Monitoring its regulation would be a future center for the protection of individual data, which would operate under the auspices of the Information Technology Industry Development Authority. As for the law itself, it disallows collecting or processing individual’s personal data or spreading the information without personal permission. However, it is not clear where this new law stands in the face of social media networks such as Facebook and Instagram, both being notorious for preserving personal data for…
