BurundiLaw No. 1/10 of March 16, 2022 on the Prevention and Repression of Cybercriminality in Burundi
Loi n°1/10 du 16 mars 2022 portant prévention et répression de la cybercriminalité au Burundi
In force since .
A computer misuse rule binding public and private bodies.
- How the hook was established
- express
- What makes it apply
- Place of effect
- Audit expectation
- on_request
- Who audits it
- Regulator
What it requires
- Do not access a computer system in Burundi fraudulently or remain in it fraudulently, and do not access a network, information system or terminal without right and in breach of its security measures to obtain information or data.
- Do not intentionally and without right reproduce, extract or copy another person's computer data.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
What it makes you log
Who may demand the log
Regulator, Court
What the log must hold
Event time, Actor identity
Log retention
The period is a minimum with no stated maximum.
- Unit
- Years
- As of
- Basis
- Fixed
- Minimum value
- 10
Logging duty
Article 4 requires network operators and service providers to keep connection and traffic data for a minimum of ten years, and Article 6 requires a provider that learns its system is used for an offence to report it at once and keep information that can help the investigation. The duties bind operators and providers, not those who access or copy data. The law has no recital stating what the record is for. The article was read from the OCR text of the official scan.
- Kind
- Explicit
- As of
- Provision
- Article 4, point 1, and Article 6, point 2
- Trigger
- all_systems
- security_incident
What this law does
Burundi's dedicated cybercrime statute is Loi n°1/10 du 16 mars 2022 portant prévention et répression de la cybercriminalité au Burundi (on the prevention and repression of cybercriminality in Burundi), promulgated at Gitega on . Under Article 70 it entered into force on the day of its promulgation. The statute covers cyber offenses committed in Burundi, or abroad where they produce effects in Burundi, and any offense whose proof requires electronic evidence (Article 1).
It defines unlawful access (accès illicite) as intentional access, without having the right, to all or part of an electronic communication network, information system or terminal equipment (Article 2).
Fraudulent access to a computer system carries six months to two years of penal servitude and a fine of 2 million to 5 million Burundian francs, or one of them (Article 16), and fraudulently remaining in a computer system carries one to three years and a fine of 10 million to 15 million francs, or one of them (Article 18).
Access without right and in breach of security measures to a network, information system or terminal, to obtain information connected with another system, carries two to five years and a fine of 15 million to 20 million francs (Article 19). Intentionally and without right reproducing, extracting or copying another person's computer data carries five to ten years and a fine of 10 million to 15 million francs, or one of them (Article 29).
Hindering a computer system's operation, including by saturating or attacking a network resource to bring it down, carries ten to fifteen years and a fine of 10 million to 30 million francs (Article 21).
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