Data Protection Atlas

Senegal

Tier 3 Comprehensive law Africa

Principal framework: Law 2008-12 on Personal Data Protection (2008). Regulator: CDP.

At a glance

Principal law
Loi n° 2008-12 du 25 janvier 2008
Regulator
Commission de Protection des Données Personnelles (CDP)

Structure

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

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.