Digital Code, Book I: automated individual decision-making

Code Numérique, Livre Premier, Art. 65 (décisions individuelles automatisées)

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In force since 18 September 2025.

A data subject rights rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 19 September 2026.

What it requires

Do not base a decision that produces legal effects on a person, or significantly affects them, solely on automated processing of their personal data, including profiling, unless a statutory or consent-based exception applies with human-intervention, expression and contestation safeguards.
Disclose to a data subject, on request, the logic underlying an automated decision taken about them under Article 65 and the significance and expected consequences of that processing.

What it reaches

Obligation class

Data subject rights, Disclosure

What this law does

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Article 65 bars a decision producing legal effects on a person, or significantly affecting them, from resting solely on automated processing of their personal data, including profiling, unless the decision is authorised by law with appropriate safeguards, or rests on explicit consent or contract performance together with the right to human intervention, to express a point of view, and to contest the decision.

The controller must also disclose, on request, the logic underlying the automated decision and the significance and expected consequences of that processing for the data subject. The Digital Code, including Book I, was adopted by the National Assembly on 30 June 2025 and signed by the President of the Republic on 6 July 2025. It was published in the Journal Officiel on 18 September 2025, the date these provisions took effect.

When LexLint raises it

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Read the law

Text of Loi n° 019/AN/23/9ème L portant Code Numérique, Livre Premier, reproduced by the Journal Officiel de la République de Djibouti

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