Treat data-protection compliance as a product feature

I wrote a piece on data protection law compliance and the core argument is simple: privacy regulations stopped being a legal hurdle and became a product differentiator.

For startups, building with privacy defaults from day one is cheaper and faster than retrofitting. And in our region especially, customers are starting to ask the right questions.

Anyone built a privacy-first architecture from the start? Would love to hear how you balanced it with speed.

I wrote this up in more detail in the full blog post — Navigating the Egyptian Data Protection Law in 2026 — with the deeper context, data, and code. Give it a read if you're curious.