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Loi n° 24.001 du 25 janvier 2024 portant protection des données à caractère personnel, Chapitres Ier, II, V, VII et IX, articles 1 à 21, 28, 38 à 43, 57 et 58 (dispositions générales, principes, interconnexion des fichiers, délégué à la protection des données et dispositions finales) · Read the law's page

• Have a lawful basis, such as a contract's performance, a legal obligation, a legitimate interest that does not override the data subject's rights, the data subject's freely given and revocable consent, a vital interest, or a public interest mission, before processing someone's personal data.
• Apply the Act's core principles to every processing activity: lawfulness, fairness, transparency, security, purpose limitation, accuracy, proportionality, and a retention period no longer than the purpose requires.
• Take precautions appropriate to the data's nature and the risks involved to keep personal data secure, including protection against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, or unauthorized access.
• Only retain personal data for archival, historical, statistical, or scientific purposes beyond its ordinary retention period under the safeguards a law defines for that purpose.
• Process personal data as a subcontractor only on the controller's instruction, offer sufficient guarantees to implement security and confidentiality measures, and put those obligations in the contract with the controller.
• If you provide electronic signature certification services, collect the personal data needed for issuing and keeping the certificates directly from the person concerned, and use it only for that purpose absent the person's express consent otherwise.
• Get the agency's prior authorization before interconnecting personal data files held for different purposes or by different controllers, stating in the request the nature of the data, the interconnection's purpose, and its duration.
• Designate a data protection officer to keep the processing register, review new processing before it starts, consult the agency in case of doubt, and handle data subject requests; only a person residing in the Central African Republic with the necessary qualifications may hold the role, and the agency must be told before the officer is removed.

Loi n° 24.001 du 25 janvier 2024, Chapitre III, articles 22 à 27 (flux transfrontalier) · Read the law's page

• Before transferring personal data outside the Central African Republic, confirm the destination offers a similar level of protection, or rely on one of the Act's specific derogations.
• Assess the destination's level of protection against the nature of the data, the purpose and duration of the processing, the countries of origin and destination, and the legal, professional, and security rules it applies, before any transfer.
• Do not let a recipient in a foreign State transfer the data onward to another State without your agreement as the original controller.
• Give the agency prior notice before transferring personal data to a State outside the CEMAC or CEEAC, and rely on the agency's authorization, supported by appropriate contractual clauses, where the destination lacks equivalent protection.

Loi n° 24.002 relative à la cybersécurité et à la lutte contre la cybercriminalité, Titre II, Chapitre II (art. 14, 15 et 25) et Titre III, Chapitre I (art. 43) · Read the law's page

• Submit your networks or information systems to a mandatory security audit and severity-impact assessment by the Agence Nationale de la Cybersécurité at least once a year, or more often where circumstances require it.
• Provide the information and documents a security audit requires, and do not obstruct or resist it: obstructing a security audit is a criminal offense under Article 43.
• This binds a network operator, a certification authority and an electronic-communications service provider by name under Article 14, and Article 25 extends the mandatory security-audit regime to every electronic-communications network and every information system.
• Expect the confidential audit report to reach the Agence Nationale de la Cybersécurité for approval and then the Ministères chargés de la Sécurité Publique and de l'Economie Numérique for decision.

Loi n° 24.002 relative à la cybersécurité et à la lutte contre la cybercriminalité, Titre II, Chapitre III, Sections I et II (art. 16, 19, 20, 21, 23) · Read the law's page

• This binds an electronic-communications network operator or service provider (Article 16) and any information-system operator, whether public or private (Article 19), regardless of the sector in which the network or system is deployed.
• Take all technical and administrative measures necessary to guarantee the security of the services you offer, and adopt standardized systems to continually identify, assess, treat and manage the risks to your information systems' security.
• Put in place technical mechanisms addressing threats to your systems' permanent availability, integrity, authentication, non-repudiation and data confidentiality, and to their physical security, and submit those mechanisms to the Agence Nationale de la Cybersécurité for approval.
• Periodically evaluate and revise your security systems, and introduce necessary changes as technology evolves, under the Agence Nationale de la Cybersécurité's oversight.
• Inform your users of the dangers of using your network or information system, the particular security-violation risks involved, and the technical means available to secure their communications or restrict access to certain services.