For the purposes of this Law, the following words and expressions have the meanings assigned to them, unless the context requires otherwise: Ministry: Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology. Minister: Minister of Transport, Communications and Information Technology. Personal Data: Data that identifies a natural person, or makes that person directly or indirectly identifiable, by reference to one or more identifiers such as a name, civil number, electronic identifier data or location data, or by reference to one or more factors specific to genetic, physical, mental, psychological, social, cultural or economic identity. Genetic Data: Personal Data relating to inherited or acquired genetic characteristics and resulting from analysis of a biological sample. Biometric Data: Personal Data resulting from specific technical processing relating to physical, psychological or behavioural characteristics, such as a facial image or genetic fingerprint data. Health Data: Personal Data relating to physical, mental and psychological health. Processing: An operation or set of operations performed on Personal Data, including collection, recording, analysis, organisation, storage, alteration, adaptation, retrieval, consultation, alignment, combination, blocking, erasure, destruction or disclosure by transmission, dissemination, transfer, conversion or otherwise making it available. Data Subject: The natural person identifiable through his or her Personal Data. Controller: The person who determines the purposes and means of Processing Personal Data and carries out the Processing or entrusts it to another person. Processor: The person who processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller. Regulation: The Executive Regulation of this Law.
This article belongs to the source version of Royal Decree 6/2022. Amendment 68/2026 has not yet been incorporated into the published article-by-article text. Interpretation and application must be checked against the official Arabic text and the current version.