Data Protection Act of Liberia
An Act for the Collection Processing, Transmission, Storage, Protection, and Use of Personal Information in Liberia (Data Protection Act of Liberia)
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Commencement not set.
A comprehensive regime rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 5 September 2026.
What it requires
- Handle personal information collected, processed, transmitted, stored, or used in Liberia in line with Liberia's Data Protection Act, whose specific consent, notice, and data-subject-rights provisions are not described here.
What this law does
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Liberia's first standalone personal-data statute is formally titled An Act for the Collection, Processing, Transmission, Storage, Protection, and Use of Personal Information in Liberia. It addresses the protection of personal data and privacy as government services, financial transactions, communications, and commercial activities move increasingly online. President Joseph Nyuma Boakai submitted the Act to the Legislature as a bill in June 2025.
The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications publicly confirmed on August 21, 2026 that the President had signed the Act into law. The Liberia Internet Governance Forum had already reported the same signing in a statement dated June 25, 2026.
Its own gazetted text, exact date of presidential assent, and statutory commencement date are not available from an official source, so its lawful-basis, data-subject-rights, cross-border-transfer, breach-notification, and enforcement provisions are not described here.
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Liberia Internet Governance Forum public statement on the Act's enactment
an official gazetted text of the Act was not found