Generates content with AI, in Egypt
Each law's tag says when it binds: since in force proposed proposed
Law No. 175 of 2018 on Anti-Cyber and Information Technology Crimes, System-Security Duty on a System Managersince 4 lines
Law No. 175 of 2018 on Anti-Cyber and Information Technology Crimes, Arts. 29, 42, 44 · Read the law's page
- This binds any person responsible for managing a website, private account, email account, or information system in Egypt, whether or not any personal data is involved.
- Do not intentionally expose a website, private account, email account, or information system you manage to the commission of a crime under this Law; doing so carries imprisonment of not less than one year, a fine of EGP 20,000 to 200,000, or both.
- Take the security precautions and measures the executive regulations of this Law prescribe. A negligent failure to do so that results in your website, private account, email account, or information system being exposed to a crime under this Law carries imprisonment of not less than six months, a fine of EGP 10,000 to 100,000, or both.
- No reachable source confirms whether the Prime Minister has issued the Executive Regulations Article 44 requires, or what specific security precautions and measures they define; WIPO Lex's own record of this Law lists no related implementing text, so treat the 'security precautions and measures' standard as unconfirmed rather than absent.
Law No. 175 of 2018, Service Providers' Duty to Secure Data and Informationsince 2 lines
Law No. 175 of 2018, Art. 2 (First) (service providers' duty to secure data) · Read the law's page
- This binds a service provider, any natural or legal person who provides information and communication technology services to users, including one who processes or stores information directly or on behalf of others (Article 1; reached by declaring any activity that provides such a service to users).
- Secure the data and information you handle to ensure its confidentiality, prevent unauthorized access, and protect against damage (Article 2, First).
Law No. 175 of 2018, Duty of a Legal Entity's Manager to Report a Crime Against Its Systemsince 2 lines
Law No. 175 of 2018, Art. 35 (duty to report a crime against an entity's system) · Read the law's page
- This binds any person responsible for the actual management of a legal entity whose designated website, account, email or information system is subjected to a crime stipulated in Law No. 175 of 2018, whether or not any personal data is involved.
- Report the crime to the competent authorities upon becoming aware of it (Article 35).
Egypt Personal Data Protection Law, rights of the Data Subjectsince 3 lines
Law No. 151 of 2020, Articles 2, 32 and 33 (rights of the Data Subject) · Read the law's page
- Give a Data Subject, on request, access to their own Personal Data you hold, and let them withdraw consent to its retention or processing, correct, edit, delete, add to or update it, limit the processing to a specified purpose, and object to the processing or its results where it contradicts their fundamental rights and freedoms.
- Reply to a request to exercise those rights within six working days of the day it was submitted.
- Do not charge a Data Subject more than the consideration the Center fixes for the service of exercising those rights, which may not exceed twenty thousand Egyptian pounds, and charge nothing at all for telling them of an infringement of their Personal Data.
Guide to Egypt's National AI Governance Framework (Edition 2.0)since 8 lines
Guide to Egypt's National AI Governance Framework, Edition 2.0, Document ID EG-NCAI-GOV-FW-2026-02, National Council for Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, and Emerging Technologies, prepared by the Egyptian Center for Responsible AI (ECRAI), authorized by the Minister of Communications and Information Technology as Chairman of the NCAI,
- Do not deploy an AI system that poses unacceptable risk through social profiling or manipulative behavioral interference.
- Complete an AI Ethical Impact Assessment before deploying a high risk AI system covering critical infrastructure or biometrics.
- Complete a Technical Conformity Assessment before deploying a high risk AI system covering critical infrastructure or biometrics.
- Continuously monitor a high risk AI system after deployment.
- Report incidents involving a high risk AI system.
- Disclose machine interaction to users of a chatbot, emotion recognition tool, or generative AI system.
- Label or watermark AI generated content, including deepfakes.
- Document the provenance of training data and copyright compliance for a general purpose AI model.
Draft Artificial Intelligence Law (2024), Pending Parliamentproposed4 lines
Draft Law on the Governance of Artificial Intelligence Applications (Egypt), circulated for consultation June 2024; parliamentary review not confirmed complete as of August 2026; no official law number or Official Gazette citation yet
- This measure is proposed and binds nobody yet; what follows is what it would require if it is enacted in this form.
- Tell people when they are interacting with a bot.
- Label synthetic media content.
- Keep documentation of AI systems operated, to support accountability.