What Is Law No. 29-2019 on the Protection of Personal Data?
Congo's Law No. 29-2019 is confirmed in the official Journal officiel. The reviewed text supports written access, objection, a free objection to prospecting, and correction or suppression rights. Written correction or suppression requests require the controller to provide a free justification within one month. Law No. 5-2025 creates the Commission Nationale de Protection des Données à caractère personnel (CNPD), and a 2026 Journal officiel records member appointments. This is a source-backed evidence profile. No public CNPD complaint channel or data-broker or public-record removal route was located in this pass, and the reviewed materials did not surface a consolidated penalty schedule.
At a glance
- Full name
- Law No. 29-2019 on the Protection of Personal Data
- Short code
- Congo Law 29-2019
- Jurisdiction
- Congo
- Enacted
- 2019
- Last major update
- Law No. 5-2025 created the CNPD; a 2026 Journal officiel records member appointments; no public complaint channel or broker-removal route was located in the 9 October 2026 review
- Regulator
- Commission Nationale de Protection des Données à caractère personnel (CNPD)
- Private right of action
- Limited
- Statutory citation
- Law No. 29-2019 on the Protection of Personal Data
Scope, who Congo Law 29-2019 covers
Protected data
Data subject rights
Written right of access
Right to object to processing
Free right to object to prospecting or direct marketing
Correction or suppression right, with a free controller justification required within one month for a written request
Notable features
The institutional framework changed after the 2019 law: Law No. 5-2025 creates the CNPD, and the 2026 Journal officiel records member appointments. Operational complaint access was not located.
Enforcement & penalties
Regulator: Commission Nationale de Protection des Données à caractère personnel (CNPD)
Penalties: The reviewed Congo law and Journal officiel materials did not surface a consolidated penalty schedule; verify the current statutory sanction provisions before publishing a penalty figure.
Private right of action: The located materials support written rights requests and the CNPD’s institutional role, but no public CNPD complaint channel or separate private damages action was established in this bounded pass.
Relevance to data brokers
No Congo-specific data-broker, people-search, or public-record removal route was located. The supported general route is a written access, objection, correction, or suppression request to the relevant controller, with a one-month written-request response requirement for correction or suppression.
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FAQ
What rights does Congo’s Law No. 29-2019 provide?+
The reviewed text supports written access, objection, a free prospecting opt-out, and correction or suppression rights.
How long does a Congo controller have to justify correction or suppression?+
A written correction or suppression request requires a free controller justification within one month.
Who is Congo’s data-protection authority?+
Law No. 5-2025 creates the CNPD, and a 2026 Journal officiel records member appointments. No public CNPD complaint channel was located in this pass.
Official sources & citations
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