Saudi Cultural Missions Theses & Dissertations
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Item Restricted A Comparative Analysis Between GDPR and CCPA: How Regulatory Frameworks Address Privacy and Data Protection(King's college london, 2025) Mashat, Fatmah; Tim, StevensThis study undertook a comparative qualitative analysis between the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the United States’ California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), two pivotal legal frameworks shaping modern data protection and privacy standards. Despite their shared objective of enhancing data privacy, these frameworks face different regulatory challenges. Thus, this study sought to answer the research question: How do these regulatory frameworks address privacy and data protection? The study’s main argument was that while both frameworks aim to protect individual data, their legal approaches and cultural foundations differ. The GDPR offers a more comprehensive and stringent consent model compared to the CCPA, which is more flexible and consumer-centred. To explore this, the study delved into how each regulation addresses enforcement penalties, legal specificity, consent, transparency, accountability, and stakeholder participation. The findings highlight the strengths and weaknesses of each regulation and provide recommendations for stakeholders to improve data protection.11 0Item Restricted READINESS ASSESSMENT OF SAUDI NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS: TOWARD CYBERSECURITY AND DATA PROTECTION(Marymount University, 2024) Asiry, Yasser; V Mbaziira, AlexThe increase in cyberattacks in recent years has negatively affected the overall performance of organizations worldwide, leaving them to face significant challenges in improving and strengthening their cybersecurity mechanisms. Non-profit organizations (NPOs) relied heavily on the use of information technology (IT) in their daily operations and strategic initiatives; thus, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of sensitive information and the robustness of their systems and policies was crucial. Unfortunately, few studies analyzed the factors that affected the cybersecurity readiness of Saudi NPOs from a holistic point of view. Therefore, this study aimed to assess the readiness of Saudi NPOs in terms of cybersecurity and data protection by examining a comprehensive set of organizational, environmental, and technological factors. The findings of this study were also expected to reveal the positive effects of cybersecurity readiness on organizational performance. This study was likely to encourage governments and decision-makers to improve the cybersecurity readiness of NPOs by introducing cybersecurity initiatives involving security policy interventions, the use of secure resources, and alignment with security regulations. This study was expected to be generalizable to all types of organizations (e.g., profit, non-profit, governmental, non-governmental, etc.) in multiple countries.40 0