LiberiaTelecommunications Act 2007, Security Safeguards for Customer Information and Communications
§ 51(5), Telecommunications Act 2007 (Republic of Liberia)
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In force.
A sector security regimes rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 19 September 2026.
What it requires
- This reaches you where you are a telecommunications service provider, including a state-linked national operator, licensed to provide a telecommunications network or telecommunications service in Liberia; it does not reach a business with no such licence.
- Ensure that customer information and customer communications in your custody or control are protected by security safeguards appropriate to their sensitivity.
- Expect the Liberia Telecommunications Authority to enforce this duty through its general powers to demand documents and technical information, inspect your premises, and issue fines or licence sanctions under its regulations.
- Expect a customer who sustains loss or damage from your failure to safeguard their information to be able to bring a civil action against you directly under the Act.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureNo
Private right of actionYes
Criminal exposure note
Section 51(5) itself carries no distinct criminal offence. The Act's criminal penalties under Section 77 attach to a Section 76 computer-misuse offence (unauthorized access, interception, data damage), a different duty the scraping topic researches; a Section 51 violation is addressed through the LTA's civil and regulatory powers under Sections 79 and 80 rather than prosecution.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA)
Settledness
The LTA has published a PDF titled Cybersecurity Regulations (https://lta.gov.lr/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Cybersecurity-Regulations.pdf) among its regulations for licensees, but the file carries no extractable text, so its relationship to this duty is not described here.
- As of
- 19 September 2026
- Open questions
- Has the LTA issued regulations under Section 77(3) that set specific technical security-safeguards standards for Section 51(5), or is the duty enforced only as a general standard applied case by case?
- Does the LTA's own Cybersecurity Regulations, dated February 2026, implement or extend the Section 51(5) safeguards duty, and what does it require once its text can be read?
What it reaches
Obligation class
Security
What this law does
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Section 51(5) of Liberia's Telecommunications Act 2007 requires a telecommunications service provider to ensure that customer information and customer communications in its custody or control are protected by security safeguards appropriate to their sensitivity, a duty distinct from the same section's data-handling rules on purpose limitation, consent and accuracy in subsections (1) through (4).
The Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) enforces the Act through its general document-production, inspection and sanctioning powers under Section 79, and Section 80 lets a customer who sustains loss or damage from a violation of the Act bring a civil action directly against the responsible person. The Act's own Section 85 sets its commencement as taking effect immediately upon publication into Handbill rather than naming a day-precise date, and no other section states one.
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