Data Protection Atlas

Zambia

Tier 3 Comprehensive law Africa

Principal framework: Data Protection Act 2021 (2021). Regulator: Office of the Data Protection Commissioner.

At a glance

Principal law
Data Protection Act, 2021 (Act No. 3 of 2021)
Regulator
Office of the Data Protection Commissioner

Structure

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

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.