Law on Personal Data and Their Protection, comprehensive regime and lawful bases

Law No. 94-V (21 May 2013), as amended through Law No. 256-VIII (09.01.2026), Arts. 1, 4-9

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In force since 25 November 2013.

A comprehensive regime rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 29 August 2026.

What it requires

An app that collects, uses, or discloses the personal data of individuals in Kazakhstan must obtain the subject's consent, or rely on one of the Law's limited consent-free grounds, before processing, and must confine that processing to the stated purpose of collection.

What this law does

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Law No. 94-V is Kazakhstan's single personal-data statute, reaching the owner, operator, and third party generally with no separate public and private carve-out found in the text read. Art. 8 requires the subject's written or otherwise confirmable consent for processing, subject to Art. 9's consent-free grounds (law enforcement, court proceedings, state statistics, and others), and confines processing to the stated purpose of collection.

The Law was adopted 21 May 2013, officially published 25 May 2013, and entered into force 25 November 2013 (Art. 31(1), six months after first official publication); Arts. 8 and 9 have each been amended multiple times since, most recently in 2025 and 2026, without displacing the base consent framework this instrument describes.

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