Algeria

Name: Algeria
Address: DZ

Algeria regulates personal data under Law 18-07 as amended in July 2025, with prior authorisation needed for transfers abroad.

Law No. 18-07 of 10 June 2018 on personal data was amended by Law No. 25-11 of 24 July 2025. The national authority (ANPDP) has been fully operational since August 2023. Transfers of personal data abroad are subject to ANPDP prior authorisation, with exceptions set in the law. The law does not expressly require localisation, but it applies to operators using automated means located in Algeria. We found no compute programme or named data centre.

AI policy and activity

No AI law or national compute programme was found in the pages read.

Power and grid

No data centre or grid information for Algeria was found in the pages read.

Rules and programmes

Rules and programmes
Instrument	Kind	Status	What it does
Law No. 18-07 on the protection of personal data Read the cited source	Law	In force from 10 June 2018	Reported. Gide analysis. The date shown is the adoption date given by the source, not necessarily the commencement of each provision. It says transfers abroad need ANPDP prior authorisation save for exceptions in the law, and that breaches carry criminal penalties of up to five years' imprisonment. We did not read the law text.
Law No. 25-11 amending Law 18-07 Read the cited source	Law	In force from 24 July 2025	Reported. Same Gide analysis. It introduces biometric data, profiling, pseudonymisation and breach concepts, adds controller duties such as processing registers, and strengthens ANPDP supervisory powers with regional divisions. The date is the amendment date given by the source.

Checked on 3 October 2026 and due for review by 1 January 2027. Many sources are trade press or law-firm summaries rather than official texts, and statuses such as reported or unconfirmed are shown as the source gives them. This is a summary, not legal advice. If something is wrong or out of date, tell us.

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ComputeFinder. (2026, October 3). Algeria: AI and compute. ComputeFinder. Retrieved November 14, 2026, from https://computefinder.net/countries/algeria

BibTeX

@misc{computefinder_countries_algeria,
  title        = {Algeria: AI and compute},
  author       = {{ComputeFinder}},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://computefinder.net/entity/cf-ctry-0089}},
  number       = {cf-ctry-0089},
  note         = {Page last checked 3 October 2026. Retrieved 14 November 2026.}
}

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