Burkina Faso
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
Burkina Faso presents moderate risk. Law No. 001-2021/AN of March 30, 2021 on personal data protection (repealing Law No. 010-2004/AN) strengthened the framework and is supervised by the CIL (Commission de l'Informatique et des Libertés, established 2004, operational from 2007). The 2021 law applies to any collection of personal data including from publicly available sources. A cybercrime law is referenced under the Penal Code's ICT provisions, and the ANSSI (national cybersecurity agency) and CIRT Burkina Faso provide incident response. No EU-style sui generis database right; database protection is compilation-originality only. Burkina Faso is an ECOWAS member. Enforcement by the CIL is nascent; political instability since 2022 has further constrained regulatory activity. No web-scraping case law has been identified.
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 | without permission |
| 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 | Loi 001-2021/AN sur la Protection des Données à Caractère Personnel (CIL) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-23. Confidence: medium. Not legal advice.