What Is Law No. 2022-59 of 16 December 2022 on the Protection of Personal Data?
Niger's current official HAPDP inventory identifies Law No. 2022-59 of 16 December 2022 as consolidated with modifying texts from 2023 and 2024. The HAPDP materials provide the located official basis for this bounded profile. HAPDP guidance supports access, rectification or suppression, erasure, legitimate objection, and free opposition to direct marketing. It also provides an online complaint route. The supplied research did not locate an individual-rights response service level or separate commencement and publication detail. This entry therefore describes the rights and complaint route supported by the HAPDP materials without adding an unverified response deadline or treating unresolved publication detail as confirmed.
At a glance
- Full name
- Law No. 2022-59 of 16 December 2022 on the Protection of Personal Data
- Short code
- Niger Law No. 2022-59
- Jurisdiction
- Niger
- Enacted
- 2022
- Last major update
- HAPDP identifies the law as consolidated with 2023 and 2024 modifying texts; separate commencement and publication detail was not located
- Regulator
- Haute Autorité de Protection des Données à caractère Personnel (HAPDP)
- Private right of action
- Limited
Scope, who Niger Law No. 2022-59 covers
Protected data
Data subject rights
Right of access
Right to rectification or suppression
Right to erasure
Right to object on legitimate grounds
Right to oppose direct marketing free of charge
Right to submit an online complaint to HAPDP
Notable features
HAPDP's current official inventory identifies the 2022 law together with 2023 and 2024 modifying texts. The supplied pass did not locate an individual-rights response SLA or separate commencement/publication detail, so neither is stated as confirmed here.
Enforcement & penalties
Regulator: Haute Autorité de Protection des Données à caractère Personnel (HAPDP)
Penalties: The supplied research did not locate a consolidated penalty schedule; no penalty amount or timeline is stated here.
Private right of action: The supplied pass located an HAPDP online complaint route but did not establish a separate private damages action or other standalone private right of action.
Relevance to data brokers
No Niger-specific data-broker, people-search, public-record suppression, or broker-removal route was located. The general HAPDP complaint route is not presented as a confirmed broker-specific process.
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FAQ
What is Niger Law No. 2022-59?+
It is the personal-data protection law identified in HAPDP's current official inventory, consolidated there with modifying texts from 2023 and 2024.
What rights were located for Niger?+
HAPDP materials support access, rectification or suppression, erasure, legitimate objection, and free opposition to direct marketing.
Does Niger have a confirmed rights-response deadline in this profile?+
No individual-rights response SLA was located in the supplied research. HAPDP does provide an online complaint route.
Official sources & citations
Other international privacy regimes
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