Data Privacy in Practice

Two privacy laws. One compliance headache. One book that actually solves it. If your organisation touches customer or employee data in both Europe and Saudi Arabia, you already know the problem: the GDPR and the Saudi PDPL are both serious, well-enforced laws — and almost nothing published treats them as one operational problem. Data Privacy in Practice is a 209-page, hands-on guide built specifically to close that gap. It's not a legal textbook. It's the book you hand a colleague who needs to stand up a real compliance programme this quarter — not next year. WHAT'S INSIDE (41 chapters across six parts): a complete GDPR deep dive, a complete Saudi PDPL deep dive, a unified compliance framework for running one programme across both regimes, advanced chapters on AI governance and the EU AI Act, sector-specific guidance for financial services, healthcare, HR, and e-commerce, a comparative look across the Gulf Cooperation Council, cloud and SaaS security, and dozens of ready-to-use templates — a Record of Processing Activities, a DPIA, a full Data Processing Agreement, a Data Breach Response Plan with a tabletop exercise script, a DSAR response letter, and more. WHO THIS IS FOR: founders and operations leads standing up a privacy programme without a legal department; compliance officers and DPOs expanding between regions; consultants who want a reusable framework; legal and IT professionals who need working knowledge of both laws fast. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Rashid Hussain is a legal and technology governance professional with more than fifteen years of senior in-house experience at the intersection of corporate and technology law, cybersecurity, data privacy, regulatory compliance, and business risk at a leading IT services company in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is the author of several publications in international journals and has also authored multiple published books. He holds an MBA, an MA, and an LLB, and recently completed an MSc in Information Security and Digital Forensics from the University of East London.