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§ Tracker · Mauritius · DPO · 2020

Anonymised respondent (a company)

No breach of the dpa has been established and the enquiry is thus closed. DPO, 25 February 2020.

Record ID
mu-dpo-2020-0066
Case reference
Decision No 66
Jurisdiction
Mauritius
Regulator
DPO
Type
determination
Date decided
25 February 2020
Respondent type
private
Sector
employment
Violations
accessing complainant's confidential and personal information stored on a company-assigned laptop
Provisions cited
Data Protection Act (as applied by the DPO)
Outcome
no breach of the DPA has been established and the enquiry is thus closed
Status
final
Source
Official document ↗
Source integrity
SHA-256 8e0bd3bf89808617…
Record verified
30 July 2026

The facts

An ex-employee alleged that the company's IT officer searched the laptop that had been assigned to him and accessed his confidential and personal information. The company responded that the laptop was its own asset, provided solely for the performance of official duties, and that only business-related information should have been stored on it. The complainant did not reply to the office's request for his views and concrete evidence.

Orders and outcome

The Data Protection Commissioner held that, in view of the company's policy and the absence of any follow-up from the complainant, no breach of the Act had been established, and closed the enquiry.

EMPLOYMENT · LAPTOP ACCESS · PERSONAL DATA

Cite this decision

DPO (Mauritius), Anonymised respondent (a company), Decision No 66, determination of 25 February 2020. African Data Protection Enforcement Tracker, Law Lab Africa Research, https://research.lawlab.africa/tracker/mauritius/dpo/2020/decision-66-employment-laptop-access/ (accessed 30 August 2026).

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