Saudi Arabia PDPL — Personal Data Protection Law
Saudi Arabia PDPL covers all AI systems processing Saudi citizen data — including data processed outside the Kingdom. The Saudi Data and AI Authority (SDAIA) has been fining healthcare companies and fintech apps. Saudi Vision 2030's $30B AI investment is driving regulatory infrastructure faster than most companies realise.
The Developer Problem
Companies building AI products for the Gulf market are launching without SDAIA registration, Arabic-language privacy notices, or cross-border transfer safeguards. SDAIA has made healthcare and financial AI a proactive audit priority.
What You Must Build
These are the exact technical components regulators will check for:
SDAIA data controller registration and compliance declaration
Arabic-language privacy notice for all AI processing
Cross-border transfer safeguards for Saudi citizen data
DPIA for any AI system processing sensitive categories
Consequences of Non-Compliance
SAR 5 million (~$1.3M USD) per violation
Operational suspension pending compliance
SDAIA public enforcement database listing
Drop-In Code Solution
Instead of building this from scratch (2–6 weeks of engineering time), use this production-ready package that implements all the required components above.
A lightweight TypeScript middleware wrapper. It intercepts the prompt at the Edge before it leaves your network, uses optimized local regex + lightweight NER to identify and hash all sensitive data, sends the clean prompt to the AI API, and decodes hashes back into real values only inside the secure browser context.
// pii-masker.edge.ts — intercept before prompt leaves network
import { maskPII, unmaskPII } from './pii-masker.edge'
// In your Next.js API route:
export async function POST(req: Request) {
const { prompt } = await req.json()
// Mask PII before sending to OpenAI
const { cleanPrompt, vault } = await maskPII(prompt)
const response = await openai.chat.completions.create({
messages: [{ role: 'user', content: cleanPrompt }]
})
// Restore real values only for the user's browser
const safeResponse = unmaskPII(response.choices[0].message.content, vault)
return Response.json({ content: safeResponse })
}