According to Section 2. C of the Broadcasting and Telecommunication Act 2021 (amending the Broadcasting and Telecommunication Act), services providers must submit all customer records for activated mobile services before the 5th day of each month. Secondly, they must register and verify customer details before activating mobile services on purchased starter packs or subscriber information module cards. These measures aim to ensure proper record-keeping and verification processes for enhanced regulatory compliance and customer protection.

A basic legal framework on intermediary liability beyond copyright infringement is absent in Seychelles's law and jurisprudence.

A basic legal framework on intermediary liability for copyright infringement is absent in Seychelles's law and jurisprudence.

Seychelles is not participating in trade or regional agreements committed to open transfer or cross-border data flows.

Seychelles lacks a comprehensive data protection regime. The Data Protection Act, was passed in 2003 with the aim of ensuring that personal data is obtained and processed in a fair and lawful manner. However, it is not currently in force.

According to Section 56(1) of the Financial Leasing Act, every financial leasing institution shall maintain in the Seychelles for a period of at least seven years certain records including: customer identification records, during and after termination of the customer relationship; transaction records showing, for each customer, at least on a daily basis, particulars of its transactions with or for the account of that customer, and the balance owing to or by that customer. According to Section 56 (2), every record shall be kept in written form or kept in digital format and it shall be the duty of the financial leasing institution to ensure that adequate data recovery systems and procedures are in place.

Seychelles has a telecommunications authority: Seychelles Department of Information Communication Technology (DICT). However, it is reported that this entity is not fully independent. The DICT is a department under the President's Office with the mandate to develop legislations, regulations and policies pertaining to telecommunication and related services, and implement legislations, regulations and policies pertaining to telecommunication and related services.

Seychelles has appended the World Trade Organization (WTO) Telecom Reference Paper to its schedule of commitments.

It is reported that Seychelles does not mandate functional separation for operators with significant market power (SMP) in the telecom market. However, there is an obligation of accounting separation.

It is reported that the Government of Seychelles owns 40.6% shareholding of Seychelles Cable Systems Company Limited (SCS). SCS is a private-public partnership made up of the Seychelles Government, Cable & Wireless (33.4%) and Airtel (26%) that was set-up to act as a promoter of the Seychelles East Africa Submarine (SEAS) cable project.

According to Art. 35(e) of the Broadcasting and Telecommunication Act, every person providing a telecommunication service has the duty to afford access to towers, poles, ducts, conduits, and such person's right-of-way to his competitors on rates, terms, and conditions that are reasonable and non-discriminatory.

Seychelles does not have a comprehensive framework in place that provides effective protection of trade secrets, but there are limited measures addressing some issues related to them. The Industrial Property Act provides a definition under Section 106 stating that information shall be considered "undisclosed information" if:
- it is secret in the sense that it is not, as a body or in the precise configuration and assembly of its components, generally known among or readily accessible to persons within the circles that normally deal with the kind of information in question;
- it has commercial value because it is secret; and
- its legitimate holder has taken reasonable steps, under the circumstances, to keep it secret.

Seychelles has not signed the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty.

Seychelles has not signed the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Performances and Phonograms Treaty.

Seychelles is a party to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). However, the country does not consider itself bound by Art. 59 related to disputes.