Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) is reshaping digital business, cross-border data flows, and the resolution of commercial disputes. Surveillance-based advertising, encryption, and recommendation systems have rewritten the legal risk profile of digital markets.

This lecture maps the doctrinal split between intermediary content liability (safe-harbors limiting treatment of platforms as “publishers”) and liability for the platform’s own conduct (privacy, security, consumer, and competition rules governing collection, profiling, and targeting). It contrasts Europe’s rights-first model with Egypt’s PDPL and Executive Regulations, with full compliance expectations by 1 November 2026.

Through an arbitration lens, it addresses mandatory-law constraints on document production, confidentiality versus data-subject rights, admissibility and integrity of digital evidence (logs, hashes, chain of custody), cybersecurity incident causation, and remedies where performance requires unlawful processing or cross-border transfer. The session ends with tribunal-ready tools: protective orders, clean-room review, expert protocols, and model clauses allocating PDPL/AI risk—grounded in the thesis that sovereignty is governance, not isolation, and that privacy protection safeguards data as national wealth for counsel, experts, and arbitral tribunals.

This lecture inaugurates CRCICA’s Beyond Arbitration periodic Lecture collection, a new CRCICA intellectual product conceived as a carefully curated sequence of high-level, practice-oriented lectures addressing contemporary legal and dispute-resolution issues that extend beyond arbitration while remaining closely connected to it in both concept and practice. The periodic Lectures bring together leading voices from the region and beyond to foster meaningful dialogue, share advanced expertise, and advance professional practice through focused, accessible, and intellectually rigorous sessions.