Barbados
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Barbados has two relevant statutes both confirmed in force: the Computer Misuse Act 2005 (Cap 124B), criminalising unauthorised computer access, and the Data Protection Act 2019 (2019-29), proclaimed 26 March 2021 and in operation 31 March 2021 (core provisions; data-controller registration sections were excepted). The Copyright Act (Cap 300, 1998 as amended 2006) includes fair-dealing exceptions but no TDM exception and no sui generis database right. Public-page crawling is not expressly prohibited; the Computer Misuse Act's unauthorized-access offence requires absence of authorization, and public sites are generally accessible. Collecting personal data via scraping engages the Data Protection Act 2019. No scraping-specific case 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 | 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 2019 (Cap 308B / 2019-29; in operation 31 March 2021) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-24. Confidence: medium. Not legal advice.