Law / Liberia

Telecommunications Act 2007, Security Safeguards for Customer Information and Communications

§ 51(5), Telecommunications Act 2007 (Republic of Liberia)

In force.

A sector security regimes rule binding public and private bodies.

Obligation class: Security

What it requires

This reaches you where you are a telecommunications service provider, including a state-linked national operator, licensed to provide a telecommunications network or telecommunications service in Liberia; it does not reach a business with no such licence.
Ensure that customer information and customer communications in your custody or control are protected by security safeguards appropriate to their sensitivity.
Expect the Liberia Telecommunications Authority to enforce this duty through its general powers to demand documents and technical information, inspect your premises, and issue fines or licence sanctions under its regulations.
Expect a customer who sustains loss or damage from your failure to safeguard their information to be able to bring a civil action against you directly under the Act.

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

In the frameworks

NIST Privacy Framework

PR.DS-P5Protections against data leaks are implemented.

NIST CSF 2.0

PR.DS-01The confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data-at-rest are protected

CIS Controls

3.10Encryption of sensitive data as it crosses networks.
3.11Encryption of sensitive data where it is stored on servers and applications.
6.8Access rights defined by job role, and kept up to date.
7.1A documented, reviewed approach to finding and handling weaknesses.

FINOS AIGF

AIR-PREV-007Legal and Contractual Frameworks for AI Systems
AIR-PREV-008Quality of Service (QoS) and DDoS Prevention for AI Systems
AIR-PREV-012Role-Based Access Control for AI Data
AIR-PREV-014Encryption of AI Data at Rest
AIR-PREV-017AI Firewall Implementation and Management
AIR-PREV-020MCP Server Security Governance

1 more

AIR-DET-001AI Data Leakage Prevention and Detection

ENISA NIS2 guidance

2.1Risk management framework
3.1Incident handling policy
4.1Business continuity and disaster recovery plan
6.2Secure development life cycle
6.5Security testing
6.10Vulnerability handling and disclosure

2 more

9.1Cryptography
11.2Management of access rights

Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law

CIS Critical Security Controls® (CIS Controls®) v8.1 © Center for Internet Security, Inc. Safeguard numbers are used under a CIS Controls Supporter License; the one-line descriptions beside them are our own, not CIS text.

If you get it wrong

Criminal exposureNo

Private right of actionYes

Criminal exposure note

Section 51(5) itself carries no distinct criminal offence. The Act's criminal penalties under Section 77 attach to a Section 76 computer-misuse offence (unauthorized access, interception, data damage), a different duty the scraping topic researches; a Section 51 violation is addressed through the LTA's civil and regulatory powers under Sections 79 and 80 rather than prosecution.

Who enforces it

Enforcement body

Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA)

Settledness

The LTA has published a PDF titled Cybersecurity Regulations (https://lta.gov.lr/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Cybersecurity-Regulations.pdf) among its regulations for licensees, but the file carries no extractable text, so its relationship to this duty is not described here.

As of

19 September 2026

Open questions

Has the LTA issued regulations under Section 77(3) that set specific technical security-safeguards standards for Section 51(5), or is the duty enforced only as a general standard applied case by case?
Does the LTA's own Cybersecurity Regulations, dated February 2026, implement or extend the Section 51(5) safeguards duty, and what does it require once its text can be read?

What this law does

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Research summary

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Section 51(5) of Liberia's Telecommunications Act 2007 requires a telecommunications service provider to ensure that customer information and customer communications in its custody or control are protected by security safeguards appropriate to their sensitivity, a duty distinct from the same section's data-handling rules on purpose limitation, consent and accuracy in subsections (1) through (4).

The Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) enforces the Act through its general document-production, inspection and sanctioning powers under Section 79, and Section 80 lets a customer who sustains loss or damage from a violation of the Act bring a civil action directly against the responsible person. Under its section 85 the Act takes effect immediately upon publication into handbill; no source stating the day of that publication has been located.

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Page updated 19 September 2026.