Announcement
14 Mar 2019
Saudi Arabia has imposed restrictions on cloud computing service providers regarding storage and transfer of data.
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Number of interventions
1
1 certainly harmful
0 likely harmful
0 liberalising
List of interventions
Implementation date
14 Mar 2019
Revocation date:
No revocation date
Announced: 14 Mar 2019
Local operations requirement
In force
On 14 March 2019, the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC) of Saudi Arabia published the Cloud Computing Regulatory Framework. The regulation establishes that cloud computing se...
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