Ministère de l'Enseignement Technique (METFPA) and KAYDAN GROUPE

Joint warning (controller + processor) + formal notice; immediate cessation; 60 days to begin compliance. ARTCI (Autorité de Protection), 16 January 2024.

Record ID: ci-artci-2024-0996
Case reference: Décision n°2024-0996
Jurisdiction: Côte d'Ivoire
Regulator: ARTCI (Autorité de Protection)
Type: enforcement notice
Date decided: 16 January 2024
Respondent type: public
Sector: government
Violations: failure to implement security measures, unlawful data disclosure (search-indexed applicant data)
Provisions cited: art. 49 Loi 2013-450, arts. 9, 29-34 Loi 2013-450, art. 17 Décision 2021-0676
Outcome: joint warning (controller + processor) + formal notice; immediate cessation; 60 days to begin compliance
Status: final
Source: Official document ↗
Record verified: 11 July 2026

Summary

A recruitment-portal misconfiguration left applicants' data accessible via a search-engine-indexed link. The Autorité held the Ministry (controller) and KAYDAN GROUPE (processor) jointly responsible for failing to take adequate technical and organisational security measures, issuing both a warning and formal notices: cease the breaches on receipt and begin conformity within 60 days - a rare joint controller-processor decision against a ministry and its private contractor.

PUBLIC-BODY · PROCESSOR · RECRUITMENT · SECURITY-MEASURES

Cite this decision

ARTCI (Autorité de Protection) (Côte d'Ivoire), Décision n°2024-0996, enforcement notice of 16 January 2024. African Data Protection Enforcement Tracker, Law Lab Africa Research, https://research.lawlab.africa/tracker/cote-d-ivoire/artci-autorite-de-protection/2024/metfpa-kaydan-recruitment-portal/ (accessed 22 July 2026).

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