Albania
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Albania presents moderate-low crawling risk for public pages. The Criminal Code Art. 192/b criminalises unauthorised access through violation of security measures, tracking the Budapest Convention model; crawling open public pages carries no criminal exposure. Albania's Law on Copyright and Related Rights (No. 35/2016, amended by No. 37/2022) incorporates an EU-aligned sui generis database producer right (Arts 119-126), fully transposing Directive 96/9/EC. No TDM exception exists; Albania is not an EU member and has not adopted DSM-style copyright exceptions. A new Law on Personal Data Protection (No. 124/2024, in force January 2025) fully aligns with GDPR; it covers scraping of publicly available personal data. Albania enacted a Cybersecurity Law (No. 25/2024) adding administrative penalties for unauthorised system access. No AI-specific scraping law exists.
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 | security mechanism bypass |
| Public-page carve-out | yes |
| Terms-of-service browsewrap enforceable | notice dependent |
| Terms-of-service clickwrap enforceable | yes |
| Copyright exception model | closed list |
| Text and data mining — commercial status | prohibited |
| Text and data mining — opt-out mechanism | none |
| robots.txt legal weight | non binding notice |
| AI training-specific law | none |
| Privacy regime | Law No. 124/2024 On Personal Data Protection (GDPR-aligned, in force January 2025) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-23. Confidence: medium. Not legal advice.