Loi n° L/2016/037/AN portant Cybersécurité et Protection des Données à Caractère Personnel, titre relatif aux infractions informatiques (cybercriminalité)
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In force.
A computer misuse rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 4 September 2026.
What it requires
- Do not access, or continue to access, a computer system without right; a heavier penalty applies where the access hinders the system's operation.
- Do not fraudulently intercept data.
- Do not produce, disseminate, or distribute child pornography.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
One to five years' imprisonment and a fine of 60,000,000 to 130,000,000 Guinean francs for unauthorized access to a computer system; three to six years and 100,000,000 to 500,000,000 Guinean francs for hindering a computer system's operation; five to ten years and 500,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 Guinean francs for fraudulent interception of data; and penalties reaching up to ten years' imprisonment for child pornography.
Penalty structure
Base band for unauthorized access to a computer system. Other offenses in the same statute carry their own, higher bands: 100,000,000 to 500,000,000 Guinean francs for hindering a computer system's operation, and 500,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 Guinean francs for fraudulent interception of data, each alongside a longer prison term. The government source describing these penalties does not give a separate fine figure for the child-pornography offense.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- 4 September 2026
- Minimum
- 60,000,000
- Currency
- GNF
- Fixed cap
- 130,000,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Guinean public prosecution and the criminal courts
What it reaches
Obligation class
Access restriction
What this law does
Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.
Guinea's cybersecurity and personal-data protection statute, Loi n° L/2016/037/AN, punishes unauthorized access to a computer system with one to five years of imprisonment and a fine of 60,000,000 to 130,000,000 Guinean francs. It punishes hindering the operation of computer systems with three to six years of imprisonment and a fine of 100,000,000 to 500,000,000 Guinean francs.
It punishes the fraudulent interception of data with five to ten years of imprisonment and a fine of 500,000,000 to 1,000,000,000 Guinean francs. It punishes child pornography with penalties reaching up to ten years of imprisonment. The statute reaches every cybercrime offense committed on Guinean territory. It also reaches an offense whose prosecution requires the collection of electronic evidence.
Guinea's own cybersecurity agency does not itself state how unauthorized access is read for a publicly accessible, unauthenticated web page, and no Guinean court decision construing that question is reported. No separate statute or case law addressing terms-of-service enforceability, browsewrap versus clickwrap formation, or the effect of a login or a terms acceptance is reported.
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Read the law
ANSSI Guinée (Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d'Information)
the government agency's own summary of the statute The statute's own 57-page text (PDF on coursupreme.org.gn and anssi.gov.gn) could not be read on 2026-09-04 the offences and penalty ranges are as ANSSI states them.