What Is Law No. 2014-038 of 9 January 2015 on the Protection of Personal Data?
Madagascar's official UGD text confirms Law No. 2014-038 of 9 January 2015 on the protection of personal data. The supplied research supports rights of access, correction, and qualified erasure, together with an objection right. It also identifies an objection to direct marketing that does not require the person to give a justification. The CMIL is identified as the supervisory authority. A 2025 CMIL procedures manual describes complaint channels by post, email, and secure platform, with acknowledgement targeted within 48 hours and a decision targeted within 30 working days. The exact Official Journal publication record and a dedicated public CMIL complaints endpoint were not located in the supplied pass. This is therefore a bounded evidence profile based on the located official legal, CMIL, and government materials, not a complete claim-by-claim review.
At a glance
- Full name
- Law No. 2014-038 of 9 January 2015 on the Protection of Personal Data
- Short code
- Madagascar Law 2014-038
- Jurisdiction
- Madagascar
- Enacted
- 2015
- Last major update
- The 2025 CMIL procedures manual and 2026 official annual-report material supply current complaint-channel, timing, and institutional information; the exact Official Journal publication record was not located
- Regulator
- CMIL (supervisory authority)
- Private right of action
- Limited
- Statutory citation
- Law No. 2014-038 of 9 January 2015 on the Protection of Personal Data
Scope, who Madagascar Law 2014-038 covers
Protected data
Data subject rights
Right of access
Right to correction
Qualified right to erasure
Right to object to processing
Right to object to direct marketing without giving a justification
Right to use the complaint channels described by the CMIL procedures manual
Notable features
The law combines a qualified erasure right with an objection right and a no-justification objection to direct marketing. The 2025 CMIL manual gives the located complaint channels and targets of 48-hour acknowledgement and 30 working-day decision, while the exact Official Journal record and a dedicated public complaint endpoint were not located.
Enforcement & penalties
Regulator: CMIL (supervisory authority)
Penalties: The supplied summary and sources did not provide a consolidated penalty schedule or amount, so no penalty figure is stated here.
Private right of action: The supplied materials identify CMIL supervision and complaint channels, but do not establish a separate private damages action or other standalone private-right-of-action rule.
Relevance to data brokers
No Madagascar-specific data-broker, people-search, or public-record removal route was located. The general rights and CMIL complaint channels described above should not be presented as a confirmed broker-specific opt-out process.
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FAQ
What rights were located in Madagascar Law No. 2014-038?+
The supplied research supports access, correction, qualified erasure, objection, and an objection to direct marketing without a justification requirement.
How can someone complain to Madagascar's CMIL?+
The 2025 CMIL procedures manual describes post, email, and secure-platform channels, with acknowledgement targeted within 48 hours and a decision targeted within 30 working days.
Does Madagascar have a dedicated data-broker opt-out route?+
No Madagascar-specific data-broker, people-search, or public-record removal route was located in the supplied research pass.
Official sources & citations
Other international privacy regimes
Madagascar Law 2014-038 sits in a global ecosystem of data-protection laws. Start with these comparative frameworks, or visit the privacy research hub for the complete jurisdiction index: