Article 8 of the Saudi Security Surveillance Cameras Law

This article gives a technical role to the Saudi Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority, which consists of:

• Developing systems for processing and analyzing the security surveillance camera feed and recordings, using data and artificial intelligence technologies.
• Enabling the Ministry and the Presidency of State Security, as the case may be, to use these systems and benefit from them.

The article limits this in two ways: it must be in accordance with the relevant laws, and without conflicting with the relevant laws. So the article does not create unlimited powers but operates within the existing legal framework, and it does not detail what those laws are.

This article is directed at government bodies, so it creates no direct obligation on facility owners. But it complements Article 7, which gives the Ministry or the Presidency of State Security the power to watch the feed and recordings, keep a copy of them and process and analyze their data where necessary and for reasons connected with security; the Authority develops the technical tools used in this processing and analysis.

The meaning of "the feed and recordings of security surveillance cameras" goes back to Article 1, which defines recordings as the moving images captured by the cameras and saved on storage media, and defines camera systems as the systems connected to their devices for monitoring, storage and analysis of the feed.

For any inquiry about protecting the data connected with recordings, you may consult a lawyer specialized in cybercrimes or administrative matters.