Law / Guinea

Guinea

4 of 6 named instruments researched to a stage, across three of the six areas of law we track: 4 in force. As of 4 September 2026.

AI law none researched
Privacy law 1
Scraping law 2
Cybersecurity law none researched
Age gating law none researched
News aggregation law 1

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Privacy law1 instrument, 1 in force

Research summary (113 words)

Guinea's personal-data protection framework sits inside a single combined statute, Loi n° L/2016/037/AN portant Cybersécurité et Protection des Données à Caractère Personnel, whose data-protection title reaches the processing of personal data by a private individual, a business, or a public institution.

Guinea's own cybersecurity agency describes the statute's aim as protecting personal data in keeping with Guinea's international commitments, and the same agency separately names Loi L023/AN/2017, which authorized Guinea's ratification of the African Union Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data Protection (the Malabo Convention).

The agency's description of the statute states its scope and its cybercrime offences and penalties, and names no lawful-basis rule, data-subject right, cross-border-transfer condition or supervisory authority.

Comprehensive regime

Loi n° L/2016/037/AN portant Cybersécurité et Protection des Données à Caractère Personnel, titre relatif à la protection des données à caractère personnel

Loi n° L/2016/037/AN, titre données à caractère personnel, portant Cybersécurité et Protection des Données à Caractère PersonnelANSSI Guinée (Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d'Information)

In force. Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

Guinea's cybersecurity and personal-data protection statute, Loi n° L/2016/037/AN, extends its personal-data protection provisions to the processing of personal data by a private individual, a business, or a public institution. The statute states an objective of protecting personal data in keeping with Guinea's international commitments. The statute was adopted by the National Assembly and promulgated by the President. No official source states the statute's commencement date, so none is recorded.

What it requires

Scraping law2 instruments, 2 in force

Research summary (219 words)

Open-web crawling of public pages carries no dedicated Guinean statute.

The applicable authority for unauthorized-access questions is the cybercrime title of Loi n° L/2016/037/AN portant Cybersécurité et Protection des Données à Caractère Personnel, which punishes unauthorized access to a computer system, hindering a computer system's operation, fraudulent interception of data, and child pornography; Guinea's own cybersecurity agency states the four offenses and their penalty ranges without stating how "unauthorized" is read for a public, unauthenticated page, and no Guinean court decision construing that question is reported.

No statute or reported case addresses terms-of-service enforceability (browsewrap versus clickwrap), or whether a login or acceptance of terms changes the legal picture.

Guinea's copyright statute, Loi L/2019/0028/AN portant protection de la propriété littéraire et artistique, which repealed Loi n° 043/APN/CP of 1980, protects a database as a work where the selection, coordination or arrangement of its contents makes it an intellectual creation, keeps the reproduction of all or a substantial part of a database outside the private-copy exception, and provides no sui generis database right and no text-and-data-mining exception.

Personal-data reach over scraped public personal data is governed by the same cybersecurity statute's data-protection title. No specific unfair-competition or misappropriation doctrine addressed to scraping, and no case law or regulatory statement giving robots.txt legal weight or addressing AI-training-specific access rules, is reported.

Computer misuse

Loi n° L/2016/037/AN portant Cybersécurité et Protection des Données à Caractère Personnel, titre relatif aux infractions informatiques (cybercriminalité)

Loi n° L/2016/037/AN, titre cybercriminalité, portant Cybersécurité et Protection des Données à Caractère PersonnelANSSI Guinée (Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d'Information)

In force. Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

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.

What it requires

Database right

Loi portant protection de la propriété littéraire et artistique, articles 9 et 22 (bases de données)

Loi L/2019/0028/AN, art. 9 et 22Loi L/2019/0028/AN

In force. Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

Article 9 extends copyright to collections of works, of expressions of traditional cultural heritage, or of mere facts or data, such as encyclopaedias, anthologies and databases, whether in machine-readable or any other form, which by the selection, coordination or arrangement of their contents constitute intellectual creations. Article 22 keeps the reproduction of all or a substantial part of a database outside the private-copy exception.

The law provides no sui generis database right and no text-and-data-mining exception, so a database with no original selection, coordination or arrangement is not protected on that basis. The law enters into force from the date of its promulgation. The National Assembly adopted it on 7 June 2019.

What it requires

News aggregation law1 instrument, 1 in force

Research summary (188 words)

Guinea has no press-publisher neighbouring right, no mandatory platform-to-publisher bargaining code, and no recognised hot-news misappropriation doctrine distinct from copyright, and no Guinean court decision on hyperlinking or framed display is reported.

The copyright statute, Loi L/2019/0028/AN portant protection de la propriété littéraire et artistique, which repealed Loi n° 043/APN/CP of 1980, carries three exceptions that reach a news aggregator: analyses and short quotations justified by the critical, polemical, pedagogical, scientific or informational character of the work into which they are incorporated; press reviews; and the reproduction and dissemination, even in full, of current political, social, economic or religious news articles for current-information purposes unless the exploitation rights have been expressly reserved.

Each of those uses is conditional on the author's name and the source being clearly indicated. The law sets no headline-length or snippet cap and no text-and-data-mining exception or machine-readable opt-out. Whether the quotation or press-review exception reaches a systematic aggregator's automated reproduction of headlines and snippets is not settled by the text, and no Guinean decision addresses it.

No numbered bill, regulatory order, or reported decision proposes a compelled bargaining regime between platforms and publishers.

Snippet reproduction

Loi portant protection de la propriété littéraire et artistique, article 23 (analyses et courtes citations, revues de presse, articles d'actualité)

Loi L/2019/0028/AN, art. 23Loi L/2019/0028/AN

In force. Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

Article 23 permits, once a work has been lawfully disclosed, analyses and short quotations justified by the critical, polemical, pedagogical, scientific or informational character of the work into which they are incorporated. The same article permits press reviews. It also permits the reproduction and dissemination, even in full, by media or broadcast, of current political, social, economic or religious news articles for current-information purposes.

That news-article use is barred where the exploitation rights have been expressly reserved. Each of these uses is conditional on the author's name and the source being clearly indicated. The law enters into force from the date of its promulgation. It repeals Loi n° 043/APN/CP of 9 August 1980. The National Assembly adopted it on 7 June 2019.

Note and primary source

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