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Law / South Sudan

National Communication Act, 2012, confidentiality and unauthorised interception of communications

The National Communication Act, 2012 (Act 24 of 2012), ss. 96 and 98(1)(e)

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In force.

A computer misuse rule binding public and private bodies.

Obligation class
Access restriction
Audit expectation
none

What it requires

  • Do not break into, eavesdrop on, illegally monitor, or hack into a communication or a communication network without authorisation from the National Communication Authority, the Attorney General, the Director of Public Prosecutions, or a court.

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

In the frameworks

NIST AI RMF
  • MAP 4.1Approaches for mapping AI technology and legal risks of its components – including the use of third-party data or software – are in place, followed, and documented, as are risks of infringement of a third party’s intellectual property or other rights.
NIST AI 600-1
OWASP LLM Top 10
OWASP Agentic Top 10
  • ASI03Identity and Privilege Abuse
MIT mitigations Draft
  • 2.1Model & Infrastructure Security
  • 3.2Data Governance
NIST Privacy Framework
  • CT.PO-P1Policies, processes, and procedures for authorizing data processing (e.g., organizational decisions, individual consent), revoking authorizations, and maintaining authorizations are established and in place.
FINOS AIGF
ETSI EN 304 223
  • 5.1.2-6Access the AI system gets to other systems and data sources is minimal and risk assessed.

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

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If you get it wrong

Criminal exposureYes

Criminal exposure note

Section 98(1)(e) makes unauthorised interception, interference, jamming, or hacking of a communication network, radio frequency, or frequency band an offence punishable by imprisonment, a fine, or both; the Act does not itself state a maximum term or amount.

What it makes you log

Logging duty

Section 96 bars disclosing the contents of a communication and breaking into, eavesdropping on, illegally monitoring or hacking into communications without authorisation, and section 98(1)(e) makes interfering with another licensee's network or frequency an offence. Neither section requires anyone to create, keep, produce or review a log or record. Section 4(2) says the Act applies throughout the territory of South Sudan and to all persons involved in the postal and communication sectors, a general application clause that names no presence or effects test, so the hook is left empty.

Kind
None
As of

What this law does

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Research summary

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Section 96 of the National Communication Act, 2012 bars any person from disclosing or disseminating the contents of a message or communication, or opening postal material, except as the Act or its regulations specifically allow, and separately bars breaking into, eavesdropping on, illegally monitoring, or hacking into communications without authorisation from the National Communication Authority, the Attorney General, the Director of Public Prosecutions, or a court.

Section 98(1)(e) makes intercepting, interfering with, jamming, or hacking into a communication network, radio frequency, or frequency band allocated to another licensee an offence carrying imprisonment, a fine, or both, without the Act itself stating a specific term or amount. Section 1 brings the Act into force on the date of signature. No notice of the day it was signed has been located.

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