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§ Dossier · EAST AFRICA · updated 30 August 2026

Madagascar

Regulator
Commission Malagasy de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CMIL; being operationalized)
Law
Law No. 2014-038 on the Protection of Personal Data (implementing decree 2023-1541) ↗
Status
Law in force, enforcement not found
Authority
Commission Malagasy de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CMIL; being operationalized)
in force
DP law status
Law No. 2014-038 on the Protection of Personal Data (implementing decree 2023-1541)
None found
enforcement activity
as of the last landscape verification
No
decisions published
no public record to collect

The law

Loi No. 2014-038 sur la protection des données à caractère personnel (décret d'application 2023-1541) IN FORCE

commenced 2015-01-09 (promulgation) · Official full text ↗

Scope
Processing of personal data in Madagascar; inspired by EU Directive 95/46.
Key obligations
Declaration/authorisation formalities with the CMIL; Processing principles and consent
DPO required
Not general.
Registration
Declaration regime with CMIL once operational.
Cross-border transfers
Transfers conditioned on adequate protection.
Breach notification
No general breach-notification duty: Law 2014-038 contains no security-breach notification article (no 'violation de données' or 'faille de sécurité' provision): only preventive security obligations and the French-model duty to notify third parties of rectification/erasure.
Penalties
Criminal and administrative sanctions per law.
Authority
Commission Malagasy de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CMIL: being operationalized; procedures manual Dec 2025)

Verified 2026-07-06

The regulator

Authority
Commission Malagasy de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CMIL; being operationalized)
Operational
No
Enforcing
No enforcement activity found
Publishes decisions
No

Enforcement record

No enforcement decisions could be found for this jurisdiction as of the last verification pass (30 August 2026). A country with no published enforcement is a data point, not a gap: see the methodology page for how coverage is measured.

Related reading

Analysis is at lawlab.africa/analysis; method, inclusion rules and the correction policy are on the methodology page.

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