Online safety & content laws in Chad (2026)

Law No. 009/PR/2015, adopted 10 February 2015, is the primary substantive instrument, criminalising fraud, forgery, and child-pornography offences online. It was codified into the 2017 Criminal Code (Book 6, Chapter 2) but contains no platform-liability or content-moderation obligations.

A government-approved reform strengthened ANSICE to oversee cybersecurity, personal data protection, electronic-transaction security, video surveillance, drone regulation, social media platforms, digital services, and AI systems — representing the first explicit statutory mention of platform oversight in Chadian law.

Chad's Ministry of Telecommunications issued a decree requiring all Starlink users (individuals, institutions, companies) to register with ARCEP or a designated operator, with mandatory identity documentation and equipment serial numbers. Non-compliance carries sanctions up to permanent licence withdrawal.

Chad imposed a 16-month social media blackout (March 2018–October 2019). In 2025, the government shut down Starlink in two displaced-persons camps housing Sudanese refugees, making Chad one of seven countries to deliberately disrupt LEO satellite internet that year, per Access Now's #KeepItOn 2025 annual report.

Law No. 007/PR/2015 on the Protection of Personal Data and Law No. 008/PR/2015 on eTransactions form part of the same 2015 digital-law package, providing baseline data-subject rights and legal recognition of electronic contracts, but no age-verification or platform-liability regime.

As of mid-2026, Chad has enacted no legislation analogous to the EU Digital Services Act or UK Online Safety Act. There are no statutory platform content-moderation duties, no algorithmic-transparency requirements, and no age-verification obligations for online services.