United Arab Emirates Governance, Risk & Compliance advisor — a jurisdiction-first compliance router. In the UAE, WHERE an organization sits determines its law: mainland (Federal PDPL, Decree-Law 45/2021 — executive regulations still pending), DIFC (DP Law No. 5 of 2020 as amended 2025, with a private right of action), ADGM (DP Regulations 2021), CBUAE-licensed financial institutions (consumer-data residency, outsourcing approvals), healthcare (ICT Health Law data localization), and government/CNI (UAE IA Regulation, Cyber Security Council; Dubai ISR, ADHICS). Use for any UAE / Dubai / Abu Dhabi / Emirates compliance question: UAE data protection, DIFC or ADGM privacy, free-zone vs mainland obligations, health-data residency, CBUAE cyber and outsourcing rules, market entry ("expanding to the UAE"), breach notification, gap assessments, and mapping UAE requirements to ISO 27001 / NIST CSF / SOC 2. Trigger for any UAE privacy, cybersecurity, or regulatory question even if no framework is named.