Data Privacy in Practice: A Hands-On Guide to GDPR (Europe) and PDPL (Saudi Arabia) Compliance

Two privacy laws. One compliance headache. One book that actually solves it.

If your organisation touches customer or employee data in both Europe and Saudi Arabia, you already know the problem: the GDPR and the Saudi PDPL are both serious, well-enforced laws — and almost nothing published treats them as one operational problem. You end up stitching together EU legal commentary, Saudi vendor blog posts, and guesswork.

Data Privacy in Practice is a 122-page, hands-on guide built specifically to close that gap. It's not a legal textbook. It's the book you hand a colleague who needs to stand up a real compliance programme this quarter — not next year.

WHAT'S INSIDE

A complete GDPR deep dive — principles, lawful bases, the 8 data subject rights, DPIAs, breach response, and a step-by-step compliance roadmap

A complete Saudi PDPL deep dive — SDAIA's requirements, consent-centric obligations, cross-border transfer rules, and how PDPL actually differs from GDPR in practice

A unified compliance framework for running one programme that satisfies both regimes at once, instead of maintaining two disconnected ones

12 ready-to-use templates, including a Record of Processing Activities (RoPA), a Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIA), a Data Breach Response Plan with incident contact sheet, a DSAR response letter, a vendor due diligence checklist, full GDPR and PDPL compliance checklists, a complete sample privacy policy, a 30-60-90 day implementation plan, and one-page GDPR and PDPL quick-reference cheat sheets

23 chapters, each opening with a real-world "Case in Point" scenario and closing with Key Takeaways and Common Pitfalls to avoid

A full glossary, index, and list of figures for fast reference

WHO THIS IS FOR

Founders and operations leads who need to stand up a privacy programme without a legal department. Compliance officers and DPOs expanding from one region into the other. Consultants who want a structured framework and reusable templates for client work. Legal and IT professionals who need a working understanding of both laws, fast.

WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT

Most GDPR books stop at explaining the law. Most PDPL content is scattered across vendor marketing pages, not a structured resource. This book was built to be used, not just read — every template is designed to be adapted directly into your own compliance files.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Rashid Hussain is a legal and technology governance professional with more than fifteen years of senior in-house experience at the intersection of corporate law, technology, cybersecurity, data privacy, regulatory compliance, and business risk at a leading IT services company in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

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