Duty LXD-6731
Handles health records, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Digital Code, Livre IV: General Cyberattack Cooperation and Incident-Reporting Dutysince 3 lines
Code du numérique, Livre IV, Titre II, Chapitre I, et Titre III, Chapitre I, Section 1, Ordonnance-loi n° 23/010 du 13 mars 2023 (art. 276 et 281) · Read the law's page
- Cooperate in detecting cyberattacks in accordance with the applicable legal and regulatory provisions.
- Inform the Agence Nationale de Cybersécurité of every attack, intrusion or other penetration liable to impair the operation of another information system or network, so as to let the Agency take the measures necessary to address it, including isolating the affected system.
- Comply with the measures the Agence Nationale de Cybersécurité prescribes to put an end to the disruption.
- This binds the operator of an information system, public or private, and more broadly any natural or legal person operating in, or possessing expertise in, the digital sector, without any sector limitation.
- No fixed numerical notification deadline is stated; the duty runs from the operator's own awareness of the attack, intrusion or penetration.
Digital Code, Title III, sensitive personal data and minorssince 5 lines
Code du numérique, Titre III, arts. 195 à 199, 206 et 247 (catégories sensibles et mineurs) · Read the law's page
- Do not process personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, refugee or stateless status, trade union membership, sex life, or health, unless a statutory exception applies.
- Rely on the data subject's explicit consent, a manifestly public disclosure by the data subject, a vital interest, an important public interest, a public authority's public-interest mission, public-statistics legislation, or supervised preventive or occupational medicine as the only grounds for processing a prohibited special category of data.
- Where you cannot answer a request or a judicial or national-security requisition within the ordinary period, tell the requester the next day and answer within eight days at the latest.
- Designate by function the staff who may access special-category personal data, keep that list available to the Data Protection Authority, and bind those staff to confidentiality by a legal, statutory or contractual duty.
- Obtain the consent of the holder of parental responsibility before offering an information-society service directly to a minor, and verify, taking available technology into account, that the consent was given or authorized by that holder.