Data protection — GDPR
GDPR — run your EU data-protection program
The General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) is the European Union's data-protection law, in force since May 2018. It applies not only to organizations established in the EU but to any organization anywhere — including in Egypt and the wider MENA region — that offers goods or services to people in the EU or monitors their behaviour. Non-compliance carries administrative fines of up to €20 million or 4% of total worldwide annual turnover, whichever is higher.
GDPR compliance is a legal obligation of the data controller and processor — no software makes you compliant on its own. HAiCapita helps you operate the program: map the obligations, run the workflows, and assemble the evidence that demonstrates accountability.
The principles and lawful bases
GDPR is built on seven principles for processing personal data: lawfulness, fairness and transparency; purpose limitation; data minimisation; accuracy; storage limitation; integrity and confidentiality (security); and accountability. Every processing activity needs at least one of the six lawful bases — consent, contract, legal obligation, vital interests, public task or legitimate interests. On top of these sit data-subject rights (access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and objection), the duty to notify a supervisory authority of a personal-data breach within 72 hours, mandatory Data Protection Impact Assessments for high-risk processing, the appointment of a Data Protection Officer where required, and rules for international data transfers.
How HAiCapita helps
Adopt a control library mapped to the GDPR principles and obligations, and maintain your Records of Processing Activities (ROPA). Handle data-subject access requests (DSARs) and breach notifications as tracked workflows so the 72-hour clock and statutory deadlines are never missed. Run Data Protection Impact Assessments for high-risk processing, and run gap analysis to see exactly where you stand. Collect evidence on a schedule and on demand — including screenshots and connector pulls — versioned with chain-of-custody in a tamper-evident (WORM) audit trail, so you can demonstrate accountability to a supervisory authority. An AI copilot drafts privacy notices and policies and accelerates remediation.
One control set, many regimes
GDPR overlaps heavily with other privacy and security regimes. Author a control once and crosswalk it to the Egypt Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL), ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27018 (PII in public cloud) and SOC 2 — so the same security, retention and access controls and their evidence satisfy GDPR and every other framework they map to. For organizations in Egypt and MENA, this lets a single program answer both the local PDPL and GDPR's extraterritorial reach at once.
Sovereign — SaaS or fully air-gapped
Run your GDPR program as multi-tenant SaaS in-region, or fully air-gapped on your own infrastructure with no external egress and no phone-home — the same platform either way, with entitlements from a locally-verified signed license. Data residency and sovereignty matter most in privacy programs, so your records of processing, DSAR data and breach evidence stay entirely within your jurisdiction.
Frequently asked questions
Does HAiCapita make my organization GDPR compliant?
No software can make you GDPR compliant on its own — compliance is a legal obligation of the data controller and processor, judged by supervisory authorities and courts. HAiCapita gets you audit-ready and helps you operate the program: a control library mapped to the obligations, records of processing, DSAR and breach workflows, DPIAs and assembled evidence to demonstrate accountability.
Does GDPR apply to a company based in Egypt or MENA?
It can. GDPR has extraterritorial reach: it applies to any organization — regardless of where it is established — that offers goods or services to people in the EU or monitors the behaviour of people in the EU. Many organizations in Egypt and MENA therefore need to comply with GDPR alongside the local Egypt PDPL, which is why HAiCapita lets one control set answer both at once.
Does HAiCapita help with the 72-hour breach notification?
Yes. GDPR requires notifying the relevant supervisory authority of a personal-data breach without undue delay and, where feasible, within 72 hours of becoming aware of it. HAiCapita handles breach notification as a tracked workflow with the statutory clock, assessment steps and a record of what was reported and when — captured in the tamper-evident audit trail as evidence.
Can the GDPR program run in an air-gapped deployment?
Yes. The full GDPR capability runs in the fully air-gapped, on-premise deployment — no external egress, entitlements from a locally-verified signed license — so your records of processing, DSAR data and breach evidence stay entirely within your jurisdiction.