Cape Verde

Summary

Cabo Verde (Lusophone civil-law) has the most developed digital legal regime in West Africa after Nigeria and Ghana. Law 133/V/2001 (22 January 2001) — Africa's first comprehensive data-protection statute — established the Comissao Nacional de Protecao de Dados (CNPD) and has been modernised by amendments in 2013 and 2021, bringing it broadly into alignment with GDPR principles. Law n.8/IX/2017 (the Cybercrime Law, in force March 2017) was developed in line with the Budapest Convention and criminalises illicit access to computer systems (Art. 6), illicit interception (Art. 7), and related offences. "Illicit access" requires the absence of authorisation; publicly accessible pages carry implicit authorisation in the civil-law tradition. No TDM copyright exception exists in Cabo Verde's intellectual property framework. No sui generis database right (not an EU member). The 2021 amendment to Law 133/V updated consent and lawful-basis provisions. Overall — public-page crawling of non-personal data is low risk; personal-data collection requires a lawful basis and registration with the CNPD for significant operations.