Privacy enshrined in Constitution: Yes, the Constitution of the Republic of Mozambique entitles all citizens to the protection of their private life and grants them the right to honour, good name, reputation, protection of their public image, and privacy. The Constitution also acknowledges the need to legislate on access, generation, protection, and use of computerised personal data, but such legislation has not yet been enacted.

Similarly, the Constitution also provides that all individuals shall have the right to access data collected on them and have it rectified, but this right has not yet been defined. Nonetheless, a data subject is entitled to demand the correction and the update of any inaccurate, incomplete, or wrong personal information related to them.

DPA legislation: Aside from the Constitution, provisions within the Civil Code, the Penal Code, the Labour Law, and the Electronic Transactions Law grant Mozambican persons a limited degree of data protection, but the country has no comprehensive data protection law. In November 2022, a new Cybersecurity Law was also proposed by the Instituto Nacional de Tecnologias de Informação (INTIC), which makes some references to personal data protection.

In 2025, a draft Personal Data Protection Bill was circulated for comment.