Comparison of Data Protection Laws in UAE and UK

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Proposed Title..................................................................................................................................3
Introduction/Overview.....................................................................................................................3
The Rationale of the Study...........................................................................................................4
Aim of the Study..........................................................................................................................5
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Literature Review............................................................................................................................5
SWOT Analysis of Data Protection Laws in UAE......................................................................8
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Ethical Considerations...............................................................................................................12
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Comparison of data protection law in United Arab Emirates (UAE) and United Kingdom
(UK)
Introduction/Overview
The advancement in technology and economic along with social globalization have led to
novel challenges in safeguarding data. The security of data that contain personal information by
institutions and organizations, which gather and process data, has become a grave concern
because of the increasing rate of constant mixed attack. With Advanced Persistent Threat (APT),
a well-resourced systematic attack carried out by hostile state and cyber criminals targeting state
secrets; company intelligence plus arbitrary thievery of sensitive information (De Hert &
Papakonstantinou, 2012, pp. 130). The latest breaches in multiple person’s health, as well as
financial data, it has become relatively crucial for organizations that gather and utilize personal
information to maintain an all-inclusive and tough security framework to secure against these
exceptional attacks. According to a report by the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report
(ISTR), information violations amplified by 24 percent in the year 2014, plus a substantial
measure of these violations led to the loss of a considerable quantity of data. Thus, the report
acknowledged that 2014 became a year with extensive zero-day attacks, prevalent vulnerability,

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ransomware in addition to proliferation of a considerable number of wicked codes than formerly
reported (Baker, 2017, pp. 138).
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) was instrumental in designing data protection laws that
have been criticized at the federal level as they contain no specific provisions that express the
type of management or deepness of data security policies to be implemented not in favour of
unlawful exposure of individual information. The UAE has been criticized for its inefficiency in
development data protection laws to protect personal data from any kind of attack as cybercrime
has increased in the recent past in the region target institutions that collect and store personal
information like the financial institutions. On the contrary, the United Kingdom (UK) have
implemented data protection laws that ensure that personal data is protected and specifies the
type of security practices against unauthorized exposure to unauthorized persons. These laws in
the UK have cybercrime decline in recent years that point out the effective use of the data
protection laws that have been seen to be strengthened through reviewing them regularly (Busch,
2019, pp. 310).
The Rationale of the Study
The study is important in examining the data protection laws and determines their
effective in UAE and UK. The increasing challenge of safeguarding personal data has increased
the awareness in diverse countries around the world towards creating data protection laws that
will ensure that the cybercrimes are minimized. These laws will ensure that the growing trend of
cybercrimes is tackled and that adequate measures are put in place to safeguard data and provide