NCSA Organizes Introductory Workshops on Personal Data Privacy Protection Law

Doha, May 14 (QNA) - National Cyber Security Agency (NCSA), represented by the national data privacy office, is organizing a series of introductory workshops on the Personal Data Privacy Protection Law for employees of a number of entities in the country.
The workshops, which started Sunday and will continue until Thursday, aim to familiarize employees with the Personal Data Privacy Protection Law, enhance awareness and comply with the law, and help them apply it in their organizations according to their needs. The workshops are dedicated to data protection employees or privacy experts in a number of authorities in the country.
The series of workshops comes within the framework of the NCSA's keenness to raise the awareness of various institutions and entities on how to protect their data to promote a culture of protecting the privacy of personal data.
The State of Qatar is one of the first countries to issue a special law to protect the privacy of personal data, as it was the first country in the Gulf and the third in the Arab world to enact this law, from which it started to promote the importance of balance between digital transformation and monitoring risks that may affect the privacy of individuals when processing their data.
The national data privacy office is the competent department to supervise the implementation of the law. It also provides a set of initiatives on awareness and the issuance of policies, guidelines and tools that help institutions to comply with the law, in addition to receiving requests for processing special nature data and notifications of data leakage. (QNA)