Data Protection Atlas

Somalia

Tier 3 Comprehensive law Africa

Principal framework: Data Protection Act 2023 (2023). Regulator: Data Protection Authority.

At a glance

Principal law
Data Protection Act, Law No. 005 of 2023
Regulator
Data Protection Authority

Structure

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

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.