Antigua and Barbuda
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Antigua and Barbuda has an Electronic Crimes Act 2013 (No. 14 of 2013, amended No. 25 of 2018) and a Data Protection Act 2013 (No. 10 of 2013), both in force from assent on 7 November 2013. The Electronic Crimes Act criminalises unauthorised access to electronic systems; public-page crawling of openly accessible sites is not targeted by these provisions, but robots.txt disregard or access-control bypass creates exposure. The Copyright Act 2003 provides fair dealing (narrow, UK-heritage) with no sui generis database right and no TDM exception. No scraping-specific case law exists. Overall risk is low for public unauthenticated crawling, moderate if personal data is collected (DPA 2013 in force) or technical barriers are circumvented.
Automated-access legality
Carried forward from the crawler-law index. Governs whether automated clients may access public websites in this jurisdiction.
| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Authorization test | unsettled |
| Public-page carve-out | unsettled |
| Terms-of-service browsewrap enforceable | notice dependent |
| Terms-of-service clickwrap enforceable | yes |
| Copyright exception model | fair dealing narrow |
| Text and data mining — commercial status | unsettled |
| Text and data mining — opt-out mechanism | none |
| robots.txt legal weight | non binding notice |
| AI training-specific law | none |
| Privacy regime | Data Protection Act 2013 (No. 10 of 2013, in force from assent 7 Nov 2013) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-24. Confidence: medium. Not legal advice.