In July, the Moroccan data protection authority held a joint seminar with the Delegation of the European Union to Morocco to present the outcomes of a study they conducted on opportunities to bring the Moroccan legal framework for the protection of personal data closer to the EU General Data Protection Regulation. In this Privacy Tracker post, Hind Chenaoui, CIPP/E, CIPM, offers a look at why this alignment is important for Morocco, the steps the nation has already taken, and the findings of the study. The seminar "aimed to inform the ministries, concerned public institutions, the private sector, and the civil society of the areas of convergence and divergence" between the laws, writes Chenaoui, and outlined three possible scenarios for revising the law.
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