Since August 2023, an independent administrative authority for the protection of personal data, known as the "National Data Protection Authority" (National Authority), is hereby established, with its headquarters in Algiers. 

The national authority is responsible for ensuring that the processing of personal data is carried out in accordance with the provisions of the law and for ensuring that the use of information and communication technologies does not threat the rights of individuals, public freedoms and privacy. 

The National Authority’s missions are the below:

• Draw up rules of good conduct and ethics applicable to the processing of personal data;
• Advise individuals and entities in the use personal data;
• Inform data subjects of their rights and data controllers of their obligations;
• Issue authorizations and receive declarations relating to the processing of personal data;
• Authorize cross-border transfers of personal data under the conditions laid down by the law;
• Publish the authorisations granted and the opinions issued in the national register referred to in Article 28 of Law No. 18-07;
• Receive claims, appeals and complaints relating to the processing of personal data and inform their authors of the action taken on them;
• Order any changes necessary to protect the personal data processed;
• Order the closure, removal or destruction of data; and
• Take administrative sanctions under the conditions defined by Article 46 of the present law No. 18-07;

According to the statistics published by the National Authority, as of 31 October 2023, only 3 months after it began operations the achievements were the below:

• 228 files relating to declarations, requests for authorisation and requests for opinions submitted by bodies processing personal data had been received; and
• 174 files are awaiting further information, 54 files have been examined, including 46 declarations, 07 requests for authorisation and 01 request for an opinion, and the authority's overall mission is continuing.

More recently (i.e. on 28 February 2024), the National Authority announced on its website that it will begin its first field inspections of companies in the private sector, in order to examine the various processing procedures before extending the operation to individuals and public companies.