Tracker / Mauritius / 2020 / Anonymised respondent (a company)
§ 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 ↗
Record verified
17 July 2026

Summary

The complainant, a former employee, alleged that the respondent company's IT officer had searched a company-assigned laptop and accessed confidential personal information in breach of the Data Protection Act. The respondent stated that the laptop belonged to the company, was intended for professional use only, and should not have contained personal information. After the DPO requested the complainant's views on the respondent's statement, no reply was received. The enquiry was closed with no breach established.

EMPLOYMENT · LAPTOP ACCESS · PERSONAL DATA

Cite this decision

DPO (Mauritius), 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 22 July 2026).

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