Loi n° 09-04 relative à la prévention et à la lutte contre les infractions liées aux technologies de l'information et de la communication
Loi n° 09-04 du 5 août 2009 portant règles particulières relatives à la prévention et à la lutte contre les infractions liées aux… technologies de l'information et de la communication, Journal officiel n° 47
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In force since 5 August 2009.
A computer misuse rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 4 September 2026.
What it requires
- As an internet access provider, remove or block access to illicit content as soon as you become aware of it, directly or indirectly (not only on judicial order), and assist the competent judicial authorities in an investigation.
- Do not use data obtained through a judicially-authorized surveillance measure for any purpose other than the investigation it was gathered for.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
A service provider whose non-compliance with its obligations under this law obstructs a judicial investigation is liable to six months to five years' imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 DA (art. 11); a legal person is fined under the Penal Code's rules for legal persons.
Penalty structure
Art. 11's fine range for a service provider's non-compliance is 50,000 to 500,000 DA, alongside six months to five years' imprisonment for the natural person responsible.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- 4 September 2026
- Currency
- DZD
- Fixed cap
- 500,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Autorités judiciaires; organe national de prévention et de lutte contre la criminalité liée aux TIC (art. 13)
What it reaches
Obligation class
Reporting, Security
What this law does
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Loi n° 09-04 defines an ICT-related offence by reference to the Penal Code's automated-data-processing-system offences and any other offence committed or facilitated through a computer or electronic communications system, and sets the procedure for judicially-authorized electronic surveillance of communications in terrorism, state security, and serious computer-system-threat investigations.
Internet access providers must remove or block access to illicit content as soon as they become aware of it, directly or indirectly, and assist the competent judicial authorities; a provider's failure to comply carries six months to five years' imprisonment and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 DA for the natural person responsible. Data gathered through surveillance may be used only for the investigation it was gathered for.
This law's obligations bind service and access providers, not a web crawler generally: art. 2(d) defines a 'fournisseur de services' as an entity offering users the means to communicate over a computer or telecommunications system, or an entity processing or storing data for that communication service or its users, which does not on its own reach an operator that only collects data from public pages it does not own.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
Loi n° 09-04 du 5 août 2009, Journal officiel de la République algérienne n° 47