Personal Data Protection Law, cross-border transfer

Law No. 24 of 2023, Art. 14

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In force since 17 March 2024.

A cross border transfer rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 29 August 2026.

What it requires

An app transferring or exchanging the personal data of an individual in Jordan with another recipient must obtain the Data Subject's consent, confirm a legitimate interest on both sides, ensure the Data Subject has sufficient knowledge of the purpose, and must not use the data for marketing without a separate consent; Jordan's base Law does not impose an adequacy or localization gate on the transfer.

What this law does

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No adequacy test, whitelist, or data-localization requirement was found anywhere in the untruncated text, searched directly for "adequate," "localiz," and "stored within the Kingdom" with zero hits.

Article 14 sets a general transfer or exchange-to-a-recipient rule, not framed specifically as cross-border, requiring the Data Subject's consent plus three conditions: legitimate interest of both parties, the Data Subject having sufficient knowledge of the purpose, and no use for marketing without separate consent, with a record-keeping duty on the Controller and a carve-out for public-entity-to-public-entity transfers.

This reads as a consent-based transfer regime rather than an adequacy-gated one on the primary text alone, more permissive in structure than the carried strict seed; it remains possible that unread implementing regulations supply a stricter, cross-border-specific rule the base Law defers to, a deferral pattern also seen in Oman.

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Read the law

official bilingual statute text, Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship

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