August 2024 1. Governing Texts Madagascar’s 2010 Constitution (only available in French here) grants individuals the right to privacy. Article 13 of the Constitution specifically states that individuals are assured of the inviolability of their persons, domiciles, and of the secrecy of their correspondence. In 2015, the country’s comprehensive data protection regulation called Law No. 2014- 038 (only available in French here) (the DP Law) came into force upon publication in the Madagascan Official Gazette on July 20, 2015. The DP Law draws upon the EU Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) as well as advice from other Francophone countries belonging to the Francophone Association of Personal D