SDAIA Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) Governance
Implementing KSA Personal Data Protection Law requirements, sovereign residency, and cryptographic shredding.
SDAIA Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) Governance
The Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority (SDAIA / سدايا) enforces the Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) across all public and private entities processing personal data within the Kingdom.
Aarkam provides automated technical controls ensuring end-to-end compliance with PDPL executive regulations.
Technical PDPL Safeguards in Aarkam
1. Cross-Border Transfer Prohibition (Article 29)
The PDPL strictly limits the transfer of personal data outside the Kingdom without regulatory exception. Aarkam's ConsistentHashRing topology explicitly tags node host IPs with geographical and sovereign jurisdiction attributes. Chunks and parity stripes are physically pinned to certified sovereign datacenters (such as in-Kingdom datacenters for KSA workloads) with zero unauthorized egress.
2. Right to Erasure & Cryptographic Shredding (Article 4)
When a tenant or data subject requests data deletion under PDPL Article 4, standard file deletion leaves residual magnetic or flash artifacts. Aarkam implements Cryptographic Partition Shredding:
- Every object is encrypted with a unique per-object Data Encryption Key (DEK).
- Deletion purges and overwrites the DEK within the key management database.
- Even if physical flash blocks have not completed background compaction cycles, the underlying Cauchy stripes become mathematically irreversibly scrambled.
3. Purpose Limitation & Access Auditing
Built-in audit emission feeds directly into national SIEM platforms (Splunk, QRadar, Wazuh), logging the user identity, client IP, S3 action, and timestamp of every access attempt.