It is reported that the registrant for a local domain name ".bf" must be an entity based in the country. Only one domain name is allowed per applicant, and the registration is subject to an annual fee of USD 450. However, these restrictions are not found in Law No. 011-2010/AN on domain name management under the first-level domain.BF (Loi No. 011-2010/AN portant reglementation de la gestion des noms de domaines sous le domaine de premier niveau .BF).

According to Art. 5 of Decree No. 2018-1199, e-retailers must get a professional trader card. To obtain it, they must register in the trade register and have a unique financial identification number (IFU).

Art. 15 of Law No. 80-2015/CNT specifies that practising the advertising profession requires registration in the trade register and a unique financial identification number (IFU).

Burkina Faso lacks a comprehensive framework for consumer protection that applies to online transactions.

Burkina Faso has not signed the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts.

According to Art. 40 of Law No. 61-2008/AN, purchasers of SIM cards must register their names and national identity numbers with telecommunications operators.

It has been reported that the government intermittently restricted domestic internet access throughout 2022 and 2023, invoking Art. 45 of Law No. 061-2008/AN on the General Regulation of Electronic Communications Networks and Services, promulgated in November 2008. According to Art. 45 of the law, telecom operators are mandated to implement all necessary measures to fulfil defence and security requirements.
These internet shutdowns are further corroborated by data from the V-Dem Dataset.The indicator "6.2.4 - Government Internet shut down in practice" of the V-Dem Dataset, which measures whether the government has the technical capacity to actively make internet service cease, thus interrupting domestic access to the internet or whether the government has decided to do so, has a score of 2 in Burkina Faso for the year 2023. This corresponds to "The government shut down domestic access to the Internet several times this year."

According to Art. 19 of the Code of Advertising, any foreign consultancy wishing to operate in Burkina Faso and any medium to be disseminated or distributed in Burkina Faso must, subject to reciprocity, use the services of a Burkina Faso advertising agency.
In addition, Art. 16 of Law No. 80-2015/CNT stipulates that in the field of advertising, any consulting agency governed by foreign law wishing to operate in Burkina Faso, as well as any medium to be broadcasted or distributed on Burkina Faso territory, must use the services of an advertising agency governed by Burkina Faso law, subject to reciprocity.

Art. 15 of Law No. 80-2015/CNT stipulates that to engage in the advertising profession, individuals must be registered in the trade register and possess a unique financial identification number (IFU).

According to the Art. 37 of Law No. 001-2021/AN, health data allowing the direct or indirect identification of individuals must be stored on national territory. An exception can be granted if the Commission For Information Technology and Civil Liberties (Commission de l'Informatique et des Libertés, CIL) ensures that the use of information and communication technologies for the purpose of processing personal data does not pose a threat to individual or public freedoms and privacy (Art. 56).

Burkina Faso has not joined any agreement with binding commitments to open transfers of data across borders.

Law No. 001-2021/AN provides a comprehensive data protection regime in Burkina Faso. The 2021 Act repealed and replaced Law No. 010-2004/AN on the Protection of Personal Data, enacted in 2004, which made Burkina Faso one of the first adopters of a modern data protection law in the region. The 2021 Act strengthens the protection of the privacy of individuals, including by broadening its geographical scope to offshore data controllers who carry out processing operations from Burkina Faso (irrespective of whether they use local means of processing), by supervising transborder transfers and by providing a more comprehensive right to be informed.

Law No. 45-2009/AN establishes a safe harbour regime for intermediaries for copyright infringements. According to Art. 134, intermediaries are not responsible for information transmitted if they do not initiate the transmission or select the recipient of the transmission and do not select or modify the information transmitted.

Law No. 45-2009/AN establishes a safe harbour regime for intermediaries beyond copyright infringements. According to Art. 134, intermediaries are not responsible for information transmitted if they do not initiate the transmission or select the recipient of the transmission and do not select or modify the information transmitted.

Burkina Faso is a party to the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT).