Law on Protection of Personal Data, cross-border transfer

Law on Protection of Personal Data (17 December 2021), Art. 14

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In force since 1 May 2022.

A cross border transfer rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 29 August 2026.

What it requires

An app transferring the personal data of a Mongolian data subject, including a voiceprint or other biometric identifier, to a person, legal entity, or organization in another country must have a statutory basis, an applicable international treaty, or the subject's consent; transfer is prohibited by default otherwise, and Mongolia imposes no separate domestic-storage requirement on the underlying data.

What this law does

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Art. 14, read in full, is a one-paragraph default prohibition: transferring information to a person, legal entity, or international organization in a foreign country is prohibited except as provided by law or an international treaty of Mongolia, or with the information owner's consent.

There is no adequacy-assessment mechanism and no localization or domestic-storage requirement of the kind Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan all carry; nothing in the Act requires a Mongolian database to exist at all. This is a structurally different, narrower-gateway approach than the rest of the batch, which is why the cross-border restriction here is strict rather than moderate.

When LexLint raises it

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Read the law

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