Research hub / Namibia
§ Dossier · SOUTHERN AFRICA · updated 30 August 2026
Namibia
- Regulator
- None established
- Law
- Data Protection Bill (tabled in Parliament Sept-Oct 2025; not yet enacted at last verification)
- Status
- No comprehensive law in force
bill
DP law status
Data Protection Bill (tabled in Parliament Sept-Oct 2025; not yet enacted at last verification)
None found
enforcement activity
as of the last landscape verification
No
decisions published
no public record to collect
The law
Data Protection Bill (tabled in Parliament Sept-Oct 2025; not yet enacted at last verification) (2025) is before the legislature as a bill. A full guide to this law is in preparation; the landscape dataset carries the verified status.
Access to information
Access to Information Act No. 8 of 2022 IN FORCE
The regulator
No supervisory authority has been established.
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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