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Five hundred and seventy kilometers off the Western coast of Africa, we find the Republic of Cape Verde, an archipelago composed by 10 volcanic islands. Interesting enough, compared to other larger former Portuguese colonies in Africa the country has a quite sophisticated legal system. For this reason, it comes as no surprise that the country has implemented a general framework for data protection and privacy matters.
At first glance, data protection can be found in the Cape Verdean Constitution, the fundamental law of this country. Moreover and borrowing (to some extent) from the European Data Protection regime, the country has put into place a Data Protection Law, a statute that seeks to guarantee and to protect the fundamental rights of data subjects, from a privacy standpoint. In fact, the role that the legislator has been demonstrating (namely, by setting down the powers of the Cape Verdean Data Protection Agency) translates the increasingly more important part that privacy has been playing in the country.
The present chapter seeks to provide the readers with a general overview of the country’s legal regime and to be a first approach for whoever wishes to investigate this matter into further depth.
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By means of example, Angolan Constitution sets down the right of habeas data to their citizens in Article 69.
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The literal translation of habeas data being “we command you have the data”.
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Traça, J.L., Gaspar, P.M. (2016). Data Protection in Cape Verde: An Analysis of the State of the Art. In: Makulilo, A. (eds) African Data Privacy Laws. Law, Governance and Technology Series(), vol 33. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47317-8_11
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