The provisions of this law and the accompanying law shall apply with regards to the protection of personal data of natural persons partly or fully processed electronically by any holder, controller or processor.

The provisions of this law shall apply to any person that commits any of the violations stipulated in the accompanying law, if the offender is an Egyptian national inside or outside the Arab Republic of Egypt, or a non-Egyptian residing within the Arab Republic of Egypt, or a non-Egyptian outside the Arab Republic of Egypt provided that the act is punishable in any form in the country where it occurred, and the data subject of the crime belongs to Egyptian nationals or non-Egyptians residing within the Arab Republic of Egypt.

The provisions of the accompanying law do not apply to the following:

1. Personal data of third parties retained by natural persons and processed for personal use.