🇲🇷 Mauritania Data Privacy Laws

The framework

Mauritania regulates personal data through Law 2017-020 on Personal Data Protection, supervised by an authority provided by law.

For advertisers the consent posture matters most, and Mauritania sits in the opt-in bloc, where tracking and outreach need permission up front.

Key instruments

Marketing and advertising

Consent-first on paper. In practice that means consent before tracking or marketing outreach, documented well enough to show a regulator.

Cross-border transfers

The law ties transfers abroad to authorization by the data protection authority.

Enforcement and penalties

The law provides for fines and criminal penalties. A ceiling means little until the authority uses it, so its docket is the better guide.