Law / South Sudan

South Sudan

2 of 6 named instruments researched to a stage, across one of the six areas of law we track: 2 in force. As of 7 September 2026.

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

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Scraping law2 instruments, 2 in force

Research summary (272 words)

South Sudan has no scraping-specific statute, so each dimension is governed by general law that predates any dedicated cybercrime framework. The Penal Code Act, 2008 makes it an offence to gain unauthorised access to, copy, or interfere with data, a programme, or a system held in a computer or computer network (ss. 388-394), and the National Communication Act, 2012 separately bars breaking into, eavesdropping on, or hacking into a communication or communication network without authorisation (ss.

96, 98(1)(e)); because both turn on acting without the owner's or the licensee's authority, reading a public, unauthenticated page does not fit a plain reading of either. No South Sudanese court decision on the enforceability of a browsewrap or clickwrap terms of service against a scraper has been located. South Sudan has no copyright statute, so it has no text-and-data-mining exception, and its law confers no sui generis database right.

South Sudan has no comprehensive data-protection statute, so a general personal-data reach over scraped public information is not established here. No statute or reported case establishes a scraping-specific unfair-competition, misappropriation, or trespass doctrine, and none assigns legal weight to a robots.txt directive or imposes an AI-training-specific rule.

Press reporting describes further computer-misuse legislation, a 2021 provisional order and a 2026 Cybercrime and Computer Misuse Act said to have replaced it on 18 February 2026, but no official gazette or government-published text of either has been located, so their provisions are not described here; under article 86(3) of the Transitional Constitution a provisional order the National Legislature does not ratify lapses with no retrospective effect, and whether the 2021 order was ever ratified is not established here.

Computer misuse

National Communication Act, 2012, confidentiality and unauthorised interception of communications

The National Communication Act, 2012 (Act 24 of 2012), ss. 96 and 98(1)(e)Official text of the National Communication Act

archived copy

Read from a public archive copy, not the publisher directly. The publisher does not serve this page to automated readers, so a direct fetch was not an option here; how we access sources. Archived July 27, 2026. Publisher's page: https://mojca.gov.ss/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/National-Communication-Act-24-of-2012.pdf

In force. Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

Section 96 of the National Communication Act, 2012 bars any person from disclosing or disseminating the contents of a message or communication, or opening postal material, except as the Act or its regulations specifically allow, and separately bars breaking into, eavesdropping on, illegally monitoring, or hacking into communications without authorisation from the National Communication Authority, the Attorney General, the Director of Public Prosecutions, or a court.

Section 98(1)(e) makes intercepting, interfering with, jamming, or hacking into a communication network, radio frequency, or frequency band allocated to another licensee an offence carrying imprisonment, a fine, or both, without the Act itself stating a specific term or amount.

What it requires

Penal Code Act, 2008, computer and electronic related offences

The Penal Code Act, 2008 (Act 9 of 2008), ss. 388-394 (Computer and Electronic Related Offences)Official text of the Penal Code Act, 2008 (Act 9 of 2008), reproduced by FAOLEX (Food and Agriculture Organization legal database)

In force since 22 August 2008. Binds public and private bodies.

What this law does

Sections 388 to 394 of the Penal Code Act, 2008 create a set of computer-misuse offences. Section 389 makes it an offence to gain access to, destroy, alter, copy, transfer, or interfere with data, a programme, or a system held in a computer or computer network without authority from its owner, and section 389(3) provides a defence where the accused was not motivated by malice and the conduct did not materially affect the data, programme, system, or the owner's interests.

Sections 390, 391, 393, and 394 separately criminalise introducing a computer virus, unauthorised manipulation of a proposed computer programme, and unauthorised use of a credit or debit card or of a password or PIN number.

What it requires

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