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Law No. 1/10 of March 16, 2022 on the Prevention and Repression of Cybercrime in Burundi, sensitive personal data offense

Loi n°1/10 du 16 mars 2022 portant prévention et répression de la cybercriminalité au Burundi, article 62 (données nominatives sensibles)

In force since .

A sensitive categories rule binding public and private bodies.

Obligation class
Prohibition, Consent
Audit expectation
none

What it requires

  • Do not put online, or keep in computerized memory, named data that reveal a person's origins, political or religious opinions, trade-union membership or morals without that person's express agreement, or you face two to five years of penal servitude and a fine of 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 Burundian francs (Article 62).
  • Do not divert such information, notably when it is recorded, filed or transmitted, which carries the same penalties (Article 62).

These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.

If you get it wrong

Criminal exposureYes

Private right of actionNo

Criminal exposure note

Article 62 punishes putting online or keeping in computerized memory, without the person's express agreement, nominative data revealing origins, political or religious opinions, trade-union membership or morals, and diverting such information, with two to five years of penal servitude and a fine of 5 million to 10 million Burundian francs.

What it makes you log

Logging duty

Article 62 is a criminal prohibition on putting online or keeping the data and names no record, log or report. The article was read from the OCR text of the official scan.

Kind
None
As of

What this law does

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Research summary

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Article 62 of Loi n°1/10 du 16 mars 2022 makes it an offense for anyone to put online, or keep in computerized memory, without the express agreement of the person concerned, nominative data that directly or indirectly reveal the person's origins, political or religious opinions, trade-union membership or morals. Article 62 punishes that offense with two to five years of penal servitude and a fine of 5 million to 10 million Burundian francs.

Article 62 applies the same penalties to anyone who diverts such information, notably when it is recorded, filed or transmitted. Under Article 70 the law entered into force on the day of its promulgation, .

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