{"id":127309,"date":"2026-11-10T09:34:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T08:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/?p=127309"},"modified":"2026-11-10T09:34:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T08:34:59","slug":"senegal-the-cdp-warns-of-voice-cloning-and-deepfake-scams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/pt\/blog\/senegal-the-cdp-warns-of-voice-cloning-and-deepfake-scams\/","title":{"rendered":"Senegal: the CDP warns of voice-cloning and deepfake scams"},"content":{"rendered":"<div lang=\"en\">\n<div class=\"cea-blog-resumen\">\n<p><strong>In brief<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Senegal&#039;s Commission de protection des donn\u00e9es personnelles (CDP) warns of voice-cloning and deepfake scams in the country and the wider sub-region.<\/li>\n<li>It reminds the public that voice and image are personal data under loi n\u00b0 2008-12, and that unlawful use through AI is unfair and unlawful processing.<\/li>\n<li>It advises verifying identity, resisting urgency and strengthening controls in companies and administrations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Senegal&#8217;s Commission de protection des donn\u00e9es personnelles (CDP), the national data protection authority, has warned of a rise in scams based on voice cloning and deepfakes. It matters because it frames a technological fraud as a question of individual rights: voice and face are personal data.<\/p>\n<h2>What the CDP said<\/h2>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialnetlink.org\/2026\/11\/08\/cdp-clonage-voix-deepfakes-escroqueries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Socialnetlink<\/a> on 8 November 2026, the CDP states in a communiqu\u00e9 (published on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdp.sn\/publications\/medias\/communiques\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>) that cases have recently been reported in Senegal and the wider sub-region. Artificial intelligence techniques can imitate a person&#8217;s voice or image to deceive relatives, colleagues or partners and extract money or confidential information. The communiqu\u00e9 does not give the number of cases, the countries involved or the sums at stake.<\/p>\n<h2>Voice and image as personal data<\/h2>\n<p>The authority reminds the public that voice and image are personal data under loi n\u00b0 2008-12 du 25 janvier 2008 on the protection of personal data. In its view, recording, reproducing or using them without the person&#8217;s knowledge and without a legal basis, including through AI, amounts to unlawful and unfair processing.<\/p>\n<h2>Recommendations<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>If a call or voice message looks suspicious, hang up and call back on the usual number.<\/li>\n<li>Resist urgency and verify any unusual request for money or information.<\/li>\n<li>Limit public exposure of voice and video recordings.<\/li>\n<li>Use official channels when in doubt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The CDP also asks companies and administrations to strengthen their control procedures and train staff against AI-generated or falsified content. Anyone who believes their voice or image has been used irregularly can contact the CDP by email or through its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdp.sn\/plainte\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online complaint form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Our view at CEA Digital Law<\/h2>\n<p>At the Euro-American Committee of Digital Law &#8211; CEA Digital Law, we welcome the fact that an African data authority is applying an existing framework, drafted before generative AI, to a new risk. The lesson is useful: many data protection laws across Africa, Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean already cover voice and image without needing bespoke rules.<\/p>\n<p>Open questions remain. The alert is preventive and victim-oriented, yet fraud is often cross-border and perpetrators hard to identify. We suggest three lines of action: cooperation between data authorities in the sub-region and with telecoms and mobile money operators; mandatory verification protocols for financial transactions in organisations and businesses; and digital literacy that reaches older people and small businesses. In Europe, the combination of data protection and transparency duties on synthetic content may serve as a comparative reference, adapted to each local context.<\/p>\n<h2>Sources<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"cea-blog-fuentes\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.socialnetlink.org\/2026\/11\/08\/cdp-clonage-voix-deepfakes-escroqueries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Socialnetlink: Clonage de voix et deepfakes, la CDP alerte<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdp.sn\/publications\/medias\/communiques\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CDP S\u00e9n\u00e9gal: communiqu\u00e9s<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"cea-blog-firma\"><em>CEA Digital Law<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegal&#8217;s CDP warns of voice-cloning and deepfake scams and reminds the public that voice and image are personal data protected under the 2008 law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_cea_women":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1130],"tags":[],"cea_women":[],"class_list":["post-127309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-proteccion-de-datos-y-privacidad-pt"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127309"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127319,"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127309\/revisions\/127319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127309"},{"taxonomy":"cea_women","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceadigilaw.org\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cea_women?post=127309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}