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DATA PROTECTION LAW · TERRITORY 972

GDPR in Martinique:
understand the local context
to take effective action.

Public data, local insights and practical considerations for your organisation.

Documentary overview · Reference years provided for each source

01 / THE LOCAL CONTEXT

From awareness of GDPR to an organised approach.

A local survey provides evidence beyond impressions: CCI Martinique surveyed 500 businesses in 2024. Their responses provide a starting point for awareness and formalising practices.

13,217employer establishments
end of 2024 · Flores coverage
70.6 %of these establishments have
1–9 employees · end of 2024
319.7residents per km²
2023 population

Insee · Flores 2024 and 2023 census ↗ · Economic indicators describe the territory; they do not measure its GDPR compliance.

LOCAL SURVEY · MARTINIQUE

What GDPR progress do businesses report?

0 %50 %100 %
Operational16 %
In progress7 %
Unfamiliar with GDPR27 %
No process in place51 %

CCI Martinique, 2024, p. 32. Telephone survey of 500 businesses, 15–26 January 2024; weighted percentages. The study also reports 2020 results. Self-reported, not a compliance audit. The 2024 total is 101% due to rounding.

02 / DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE

A local indicator of GDPR progress

In 2024, 16% of surveyed businesses reported an operational process, 7% a process underway, 27% said they did not know what GDPR was and 51% reported no process started. These are declarations, not audit findings. Rounding brings the total to 101%.

CCI Martinique · 2024 study, p. 32 · 500 businesses ↗

These findings relate to Martinique only; they cannot be extrapolated to Guadeloupe or French Guiana.

03 / FROM EVIDENCE TO ACTION

What this means for your organisation.

Suggested approaches to adapt after reviewing your activities, tools and obligations. These are not audit findings.

01

Understand actual uses

Use the files actually handled to explain responsibilities to managers and teams.

02

Formalise the process

List processing activities, organise responses to individuals’ requests and define retention periods.

03

Manage service providers

Review contracts and access to customer, accounting and business tools.

04 / PUTTING THE FIGURES IN CONTEXT

Compare like with like.

3 TERRITORIES · ONE SOURCE

The landscape of employer establishments

08,00016,000
Guadeloupe14,582
Martinique13,217
French Guiana6,716

End of 2024 · Establishments employing staff during the year and active at the end of December.

Insee, Flores 2024 ↗ · Excludes defence and private household employers. This is not the total number of businesses.

FRANCE · NATIONAL CONTEXT

Personal data breach notifications

010,00020,000
20245,630
20256,167

2025: 6,167 notifications after excluding 11,635 notifications linked to two incidents at service providers.

CNIL, 2025 annual report, p. 52 ↗ · Notifications do not count unique attacks or individuals. No local distribution is extrapolated here.

05 / SOURCES & METHOD

Evidence you can check.

Observation dates differ from publication dates. This overview brings together the verified data below; it is neither an exhaustive incident inventory nor an official barometer.

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Who can help in the event of an incident?

The official CERT-FR directory lists CSIRT-ATLANTIC for Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana. Technical assistance and assessment of legal obligations complement each other. A cyber incident is not automatically a personal data breach.

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