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Comprehensive omnibus statute exists and regulator is nominally operational, but recency/detail of implementing texts (2025 amendment) and ANPDP's practical enforcement posture could not be fully corroborated from primary sources in this run.
Sub-modules (5)
Regulator And AuthorityAmber
ANPDP is named in secondary reporting as the body issuing compliance reminders and recommendations to controllers, indicating an operational (not merely nominal) regulator.
Claims: CLM-DZ-a1b2c301
Act And InstrumentsAmber
Law 18-07 (2018) is the founding instrument; a modifying law was published in the Official Gazette in 2025.
Claims: CLM-DZ-a1b2c302, CLM-DZ-a1b2c303
Material ScopeAmber
The law is understood to cover automated and structured manual processing of personal data by public and private controllers established in Algeria, following the general Francophone-civil-law model; granular scope wording could not be independently retrieved.
Absence provenance: not recorded. Searched: Algérie loi 18-07 protection données caractère personnel, loi 18-07 Algérie 10 juin 2018 traitement données caractère personnel joradp.
Claims: CLM-DZ-a1b2c304
Territorial ScopeRed
No confirmed evidence of an explicit extraterritorial/non-established-controller trigger comparable to GDPR Art 3(2) was retrieved for Law 18-07.
Absence provenance: not recorded. Searched: Algeria data protection law territorial scope non-established controllers.
Regulator Registration And FilingAmber
Francophone-model DP statutes of this era typically require prior declaration/authorisation filings with the national authority for certain processing categories; ANPDP's specific filing/registration procedures under 18-07 could not be verified from primary sources in this run.
Claims: CLM-DZ-a1b2c305
Sources and claims (5)
- ProbableDataGuidance (OneTrust) — ANPDP (Autorité Nationale de Protection des Données à Caractère Personnel) is the designated national data-protection supervisory authority for Algeria and has issued compliance reminders and recommendations to controllers.
- ProbableDataGuidance (OneTrust) — Law No. 18-07 of 10 June 2018 on the Protection of Individuals in the Processing of Personal Data was published in Algeria's Official Gazette and constitutes the founding comprehensive data-protection statute.
- UncertainDataGuidance (OneTrust) — A law modifying the 2018 Data Protection Law was published in Algeria's Official Gazette in 2025, indicating an active legislative refinement of the regime.
- SpeculativeInternal (no external corroboration retrieved for this specific claim) — Law 18-07 is understood to apply to automated and organised manual processing of personal data carried out by public and private-sector controllers within Algeria, consistent with the general Francophone civil-law data-protection model.
- SpeculativeInternal (no external corroboration retrieved for this specific claim) — Algeria's regime is understood to require prior declaration or authorisation from ANPDP for certain categories of processing, following the regional CNIL-style prior-formality model, though the precise thresholds under 18-07 were not independently confirmed in this run.