Loi n°2019-056 du 5 décembre 2019 portant répression de la cybercriminalité (Law No. 2019-056 on the repression of cybercrime)
Effective: 5 Dec 2019
Plain-English summary
Published in Journal Officiel no. 43 of 13 December 2019. It transposes ECOWAS Directive C/DIR/1/08/11 and covers offences committed through information and communication technologies, including unauthorised access (Arts. 4-5), system interference and data tampering (Arts. 6-11), fraud through data manipulation (Art. 12) and cyber-enabled fraud and money laundering (Arts. 44-53). Service providers must keep data identifying content contributors (Art. 26), and a prosecutor or judge may order data preserved for up to two years (Art. 82).
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