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Communication and Information Technology Regulatory Authority CITRA

Official site
https://www.citra.gov.kw
Established
2014
Constituting statute
Law No. 37 of 2014, as amended by Law No. 98 of 2015
Supervises Telecom & Tech
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Who they are

The regulator for telecommunications and information technology in Kuwait.

What they do

Licenses telecom and IT service providers, manages spectrum and the .kw domain, and issues the Data Privacy Protection Regulation and data classification policy. Also carries out national cybersecurity tasks under the National Cybersecurity Strategy. Kuwait has no separate data protection authority; CITRA is the body that has issued a data privacy regulation (see coverage notes).

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