BahrainPersonal Data Protection Law, data subject rights
Law No. 30 of 2018, Arts. 17-23
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In force since 1 August 2019.
A data subject rights rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 29 August 2026.
What it requires
- An app that receives a data-subject request from an individual in Bahrain must respond within a fixed working-day deadline, ten or fifteen working days depending on the request type, rather than an open-ended reasonable-time standard.
What this law does
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Section Five (Arts. 17-23) sets Bahrain's data-subject rights, each with its own working-day deadline. The Data Controller must notify a Data Subject who requests confirmation of processing within 15 working days (Art. 18(1)). It must halt or decline to begin direct-marketing processing and notify the Data Subject of its decision within 10 working days of a marketing objection (Art. 20(1)-(2)).
It must halt or decline to begin processing that causes material or moral damage within 10 working days of an objection on that ground (Art. 21(1)). It must respond to a rectification, blocking, or erasure request within 10 working days (Art. 23(1)).
Art. 17 separately requires the Data Controller to brief the Data Subject on the purposes of processing at the time data is obtained, Art. 19 requires notice of the right to object to direct marketing, and Art. 22 gives a Data Subject a right against a decision based solely on automated processing. Art. 32 (Conflict of Interest) governs PDPA Board members and has no bearing on data-subject rights; the deadlines above rest on the Section Five articles that carry them.
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