Data Protection Atlas

Rwanda

Tier 3 Comprehensive law Africa

Principal framework: Law 058/2021 on Personal Data & Privacy (2021). Regulator: NCSA (Data Protection Office).

At a glance

Principal law
Law No. 058/2021 of 13/10/2021
Regulator
National Cyber Security Authority — Data Protection and Privacy Office

Structure

Structural pattern
Not assessed
Sub-jurisdictions
None — no sub-national axis
ISO code
RW

A Pattern 4 jurisdiction has no sub-national layer to model. Devolution elsewhere in the legal system does not imply it here — check each Act rather than reasoning from the country.

Transfers and adequacy

EU member
No
EEA member
No

Instruments

No instrument profiled yet.

Sources

Never independently verified — seeded from the prototype.