Data Protection Act, 2024
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Commencement not set.
A comprehensive regime rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 5 September 2026.
What it requires
- Comply with the Data Protection Act, 2024's rules for collecting, processing, storing, and sharing personal data, whether the personal data belongs to a private individual or is held by a public organisation.
- Expect the Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority, acting as the Data Protection Authority, to regulate, monitor, and enforce compliance with the Act.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority, acting as the Data Protection Authority
What this law does
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The Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA) describes the Act as positioning MACRA itself as the Data Protection Authority, charged with regulating, monitoring, and enforcing compliance around how personal data is collected, processed, stored, and shared across sectors, and as promoting responsible management of personal data by both public and private organisations.
The Act's own text was not obtained: the copy hosted by MACRA is an image-only scanned PDF with no extractable text, and no other located copy, official or otherwise, could be read either. Its lawful-basis, sensitive-category, automated-decision, cross-border-transfer, breach-notification, and penalty provisions are accordingly not described here.
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Read the law
Malawi Communications Regulatory Authority (MACRA), file listing for the Act, and MACRA's own account of the Act on its website
not the Act's own text