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

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 regime of data protection in Burkina Faso. Art. 45 establishes a commission for information technology and civil liberties (Commission de l'Informatique et des Libertés, CIL). The 2021 Act repealed and replaced the Law No. 010-2004/AN on the Protection of Personal Data, enacted in 2004, which made Burkina Faso one of the first adopters of a modern data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. The CIL is the independent administrative authority in charge of compliance with the Law and although it has the power to prosecute any breach of the Law, it is reported that it is not considered to be particularly active.

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

Art. 65 of the Law No. 061-2008/AN established an independent regulatory authority for electronic communications. This institution is known as the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Posts (Autorité de Régulation des Communications Electroniques et des Postes, ARCEP). It is reported that this authority is independent from the government in the decision-making process.

According to the Art. 42 of Law No. 001-2021/AN, international transfers cannot be made without the respect of the following conditions:
- a request of authorisation of the Commission For Information Technology and Civil Liberties (CIL);
- a signatures of a data confidentiality clause and a data reversibility clause in order to facilitate the complete migration of the data at the end of the contract;
- the implementation of technical and organisational security measures. Additionally, the transfer can only be made to a foreign country or an international organisation if the recipient country or international organisation ensures an adequate level of protection equal to the one ensured in Burkina Faso.

The government owns 28.6% of the shares of Moov Africa Burkina.

Arts. 72 and 81 of Law No. 061-2008/AN stipulate that the regulatory authority can take measures to introduce functional and accounting separation for operators with significant market power (SMP) in the telecom market.

Burkina Faso 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. In particular, the country has established provisions addressing disclosure, acquisition or use of confidential information in the course of industrial or commercial activities by third parties in Art. 6 of Annex VIII of the Bangui Agreement, which has been ratified by 17 French-speaking States, including Burkina Faso in 2002.

There is an obligation for passive infrastructure sharing in Burkina Faso to deliver telecom services to end users under Arts. 5.k, 74.f, 144 and 145 of the Law No. 061-2008/AN. Moreover, passive infrastructure sharing is practiced in the mobile sector and in the fixed sector based on commercial agreements.

Burkina Faso has a copyright regime under the Law No. 048-2019/AN. The exceptions do not follow the fair use or fair dealing model, therefore limiting the lawful use of copyrighted work by others. Arts. 22-29 list the exceptions, which include: reproduction for scientific research purposes; reproduction as part of teaching activities; reporting current events; among others.

In addition, the Revised Bangui Agreement, which is a regional intellectual property law that is not only a regional convention applicable in all member states but also serves as a national intellectual property law in Burkina Faso and each of the other member states, contains provisions on copyright in Annex VII: Chapter IV (Limitations to Economic Rights) and establishes a regime of copyright exceptions.

Burkina Faso has ratified the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Copyright Treaty.

Burkina Faso has ratified the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Performances and Phonograms Treaty.

According to the Bangui Agreement, ratified by 17 French-speaking States, including Burkina Faso, applicants resident outside the territory of the member States must file through an agent selected in one of those member States (Section III, Art. 8). The professional status of agent accredited to the African Intellectual Property Organisation (OAPI) is governed by the Regulations on the Profession of Authorised Agent before the OAPI.